Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
BOETHIUSWho would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
BOETHIUSHe who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
BOETHIUSAll fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
BOETHIUSMan is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
BOETHIUSMusic is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
BOETHIUSNo man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
BOETHIUSFor in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
BOETHIUSIf there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
BOETHIUSNothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
BOETHIUSNothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
BOETHIUSThe now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
BOETHIUSIn every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
BOETHIUSHe who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.
BOETHIUSNothing is miserable unless you think it so.
BOETHIUSIn other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
BOETHIUSYou know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
BOETHIUS