Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that anger is hopeless, fear is pointless and desire all a delusion. He whose heart is fickle is not… — 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. And there is no reason at all for hating the bad. For just as weakness is a disease of the body, so wickedness is a disease of the mind. And if this is so, since we… — 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 Image
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just. — Boethius Copy Share Image
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment. — Boethius Copy Share Image
Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.) — Boethius Copy Share Image
I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must write, and elegiac verses bathe my face with real tears. Not even terror could drive from me these faithful companions of my long journey. Poetry, which was once the glory of my happy and flourishing… — 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 Image
“Quid autem de corporis uoluptatibus loquar, quarum appetentia quidem plena est anxietatis, satietas uero paenitentiae?” — Boethius Copy Share Image
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice. — Boethius Copy Share Image
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy. — Boethius Copy Share Image
