black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

He 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.

Boethius

He 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.
BOETHIUS

Bad Death Destiny Fate Goodness Life Proud
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.
BOETHIUS

Friendship Heart Kind Love Man People Rule Stars
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
BOETHIUS

Fortune Men Security
In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
BOETHIUS

Adversity Happiness Kind Kindness Misfortune
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
BOETHIUS

Avoid Goodness Necessary
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
BOETHIUS

Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
BOETHIUS

Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
BOETHIUS

Acceptance Face Fate Fortune Himself Life
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
BOETHIUS

Glory Home Men Respect
Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
BOETHIUS

Freedom Music Nature Unity
Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
BOETHIUS

Happiness Himself Misery Place Satisfaction
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
BOETHIUS

Excellence Himself Men
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.
BOETHIUS

Bad Equality Goodness Men Thinking
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
BOETHIUS

Attitude Music Ourselves
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
BOETHIUS

End Goodness Philosophy
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.
BOETHIUS

Death Fame Life Mortal Thinking Wait Yourself

He 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

He 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Boethius Quotes