Boethius Quotes

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• A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
• In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of…
• ...Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
• So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of…
• It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,'? says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but…
• In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
• Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
• If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
• So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears…
• No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
• The good is the end toward which all things tend.
• In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
• For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
• Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
• A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
• Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.

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