He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
BOETHIUSHe who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
BOETHIUSAnd 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.
BOETHIUSIn every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
BOETHIUSNo man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
BOETHIUSOne’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
BOETHIUSLove has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
BOETHIUSWhose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
BOETHIUSInconsistency 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.
BOETHIUSIn every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
BOETHIUSFor in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
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.
BOETHIUSNothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
BOETHIUSWhose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
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.
BOETHIUSMusic is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
BOETHIUSAll fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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