Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
BOETHIUSA man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
More Boethius Quotes
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Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
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Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don’t you agree?
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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top.
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Love binds people too, in matrimony’s sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.
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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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And no renown can render you well-known: For if you think that fame can lengthen life By mortal famousness immortalized, The day will come that takes your fame as well, And there a second death for you awaits.
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So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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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.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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