black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.

Boethius

The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
BOETHIUS

Life Limitation Material Moments Perfection
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
BOETHIUS

Alone Deep Heaven Man
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
BOETHIUS

Confidence Ignorance Men Nature Vice
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
BOETHIUS

Attitude Music Ourselves
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 person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
BOETHIUS

Character Nature Person
The good is the end toward which all things tend.
BOETHIUS

End Goodness Philosophy
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
Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
BOETHIUS

Establishment Happiness Life
As far as possible, join faith to reason.
BOETHIUS

Faith Possible Reason
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
BOETHIUS

Eyes God Light Myself
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
BOETHIUS

Adversity Depression Happiness Misery
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
BOETHIUS

Happiness Misery Positive Stress Thinking
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
BOETHIUS

Avoid Goodness Necessary
Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
BOETHIUS

Freedom Music Nature Unity
He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
BOETHIUS

Goodness Happiness Virtue Wisdom Wise

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Boethius Quotes