Boethius Quotes

Full Name:Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

Walk of life:Philosopher

Born:Rome, Italy

Died:23 October 524 AD, Pavia, Italy

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

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

Adversity Happiness Kind Kindness Misfortune
The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.
BOETHIUS

Greatness Mathematics Mystery Necessary Need Science
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
BOETHIUS

Acceptance Face Fate Fortune Life
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
BOETHIUS

Fortune Men Security
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
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
BOETHIUS

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

Attitude Music
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
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

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