In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
BOETHIUSIn every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
More Boethius Quotes
-
-
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
BOETHIUS -
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?
BOETHIUS -
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
BOETHIUS -
Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
BOETHIUS -
Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
BOETHIUS -
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
BOETHIUS -
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
BOETHIUS -
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
BOETHIUS -
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
BOETHIUS -
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
BOETHIUS -
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
BOETHIUS -
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
BOETHIUS -
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.
BOETHIUS -
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
BOETHIUS -
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
BOETHIUS