black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Boethius

You 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

Deep Face Fun Heart Joy Law Love Prince Smile Togetherness Wisdom
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
BOETHIUS

Excellence Himself Men
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
BOETHIUS

Misery Sad Thinking Yourself
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
BOETHIUS

Attitude Music Ourselves
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
BOETHIUS

Beginning Born Friendship Human Intellectual Kind Love Suffering
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
BOETHIUS

Discipline Fortune Goodness Punishment Reward
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
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
BOETHIUS

Knowledge Wisdom Yourself
One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
BOETHIUS

Fortune Money Oneself True Virtue
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
BOETHIUS

End Goodness Philosophy
The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
BOETHIUS

Forever Present Time
In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
BOETHIUS

Adversity Happiness Men Remember
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
BOETHIUS

Alone Deep Heaven Man
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
BOETHIUS

Faith Possible Reason
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

Change Consistency Essence Game Joy Play
Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
BOETHIUS

Freedom Music Nature Unity

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Boethius Quotes