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.
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 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.
BOETHIUSWhose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
BOETHIUSEvery man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
BOETHIUSNothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
BOETHIUSIn every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
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.
BOETHIUSFor in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
BOETHIUSA man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
BOETHIUSMan is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
BOETHIUSIn every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was 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.
BOETHIUSAs far as possible, join faith to reason.
BOETHIUSContemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
BOETHIUSHe who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
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