He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy. — Boethius Copy Share Image
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy. — Boethius Copy Share Image
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it. — Boethius Copy Share Image
Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life? — Boethius Copy Share Image
Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content. — Boethius Copy Share Image
“And it is because you don't know the end and purpose of things that you think the wicked and the criminal have… — Boethius Copy Share Image
“If happiness is the highest good of a rational nature, and if what can be taken from you in any way cannot… — Boethius Copy Share Image
“Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred. For no one except the greatest of fools would hate good men.… — Boethius Copy Share
“Has the world become so topsy-turvy that a living creature, whom the gift of reason makes divine, believes that his glory lies solely in… — Boethius Copy Share
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just. — Boethius Copy Share
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment. — Boethius Copy Share
Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.) — Boethius Copy Share
I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I… — Boethius Copy Share
Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life? — Boethius Copy Share
“Quid autem de corporis uoluptatibus loquar, quarum appetentia quidem plena est anxietatis, satietas uero paenitentiae?” — Boethius Copy Share
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice. — Boethius Copy Share
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy. — Boethius Copy Share
So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who… — Boethius Copy Share
