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> [“The greatest misery in adverse fortune is once to have been happy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boethius/the-greatest-misery-in-adverse-fortune-is-once-to-have-been-happy/)

[Boethius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boethius/)

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## More by Boethius

> [“Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred. For no one except the greatest of fools would hate good men.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boethius/among-wise-men-there-is-no-place-at-all-left-for-hatred-for-no-one/)

[Boethius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boethius/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boethius/has-the-world-become-so-topsy-turvy-that-a-living-creature-whom-the/)

[Boethius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boethius/)

> [All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boethius/all-fortune-is-good-fortune-for-it-either-rewards-disciplines-amends/)

[Boethius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boethius/)

> [The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boethius/the-completely-simultaneous-and-perfect-possession-of-unlimited-life/)

[Boethius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boethius/)

> [Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boethius/nunc-fluens-facit-tempus-nunc-stans-facit-aeternitatum-the-now-that/)

[Boethius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boethius/)

> [I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boethius/i-who-once-wrote-songs-with-keen-delight-am-now-by-sorrow-driven-to/)

[Boethius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boethius/)

> [Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boethius/whose-happiness-is-so-firmly-established-that-he-has-no-quarrel-from/)

[Boethius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boethius/)

> [Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boethius/who-would-give-a-law-to-lovers-love-is-unto-itself-a-higher-law/)

[Boethius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boethius/)

> [“Quid autem de corporis uoluptatibus loquar, quarum appetentia quidem plena est anxietatis, satietas uero paenitentiae?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boethius/quid-autem-de-corporis-uoluptatibus-loquar-quarum-appetentia-quidem/)

[Boethius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boethius/)

> [Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boethius/give-me-thy-light-and-fix-my-eyes-on-thee/)

[Boethius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boethius/)

> [In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boethius/in-other-living-creatures-the-ignorance-of-themselves-is-nature-but/)

[Boethius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boethius/)

> [If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boethius/if-there-is-anything-good-about-nobility-it-is-that-it-enforces-the/)

[Boethius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boethius/)

> [A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boethius/a-man-content-to-go-to-heaven-alone-will-never-go-to-heaven/)

[Boethius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boethius/)

> [So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boethius/so-nothing-is-ever-good-or-bad-unless-you-think-it-so-and-vice-versa/)

[Boethius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boethius/)

> [“The greatest misery in adverse fortune is once to have been happy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boethius/the-greatest-misery-in-adverse-fortune-is-once-to-have-been-happy/)

[Boethius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boethius/)

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