The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
BOETHIUSThe science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.
More Boethius Quotes
-
-
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
BOETHIUS -
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
BOETHIUS -
You 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 -
Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
BOETHIUS -
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
BOETHIUS -
In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
BOETHIUS -
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
BOETHIUS -
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
BOETHIUS -
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
BOETHIUS -
For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
BOETHIUS -
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
BOETHIUS -
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
BOETHIUS -
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
BOETHIUS -
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
BOETHIUS -
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
BOETHIUS







