He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
BOETHIUSHe who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
BOETHIUSSo 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.
BOETHIUSA man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
BOETHIUSIf there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
BOETHIUSContemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
BOETHIUSThe good is the end toward which all things tend.
BOETHIUSMan is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
BOETHIUSFor in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
BOETHIUSGive me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
BOETHIUSWhose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
BOETHIUSIn every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
BOETHIUSIn other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
BOETHIUSI scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
BOETHIUSNothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
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.
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.
BOETHIUS