“With chaste affections man and wife In solemn wedlock it entwines. Love’s laws most trusty comrades bind. How happy is the human race, 30 If Love, by which the heavens are ruled, To rule men’s minds is set in place!” — 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
