Boethius Quotes

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• Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

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  Happiness, Stress, Positivity

  Boethius (2012). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• 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 don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away.

  Boethius

  Essence, Tragedy, Passing Away

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• He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

  Boethius

  Happiness, Wise, Virtuous

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• Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you are still way ahead. You are unhappy because you have lost those things in which you took pleasure? But you can also take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away.

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  Balance, Unhappy, Passing Away

  Boethius, David R Slavitt (2008). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

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  Discipline, Rewards, Fortune

  Boethius (1897). “The Consolation of Philosophy”

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• If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

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  If There Is A God, Evil, There Is No God

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• One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

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  Virtue, Fortune, Vicissitudes

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• Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

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  Music Is, United, Ifs

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• A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

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  Depressing, Men, Feeling Alone

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• 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 his own master, has thrown away his shield, deserted his post, and he forges the links of the chain that holds him.

  Boethius

  Heart, Men, Tyrants

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• Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

  Boethius

  Sad, Thinking, Misery

  Boethius (2012). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.

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  Adversity, Men, Affliction

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• He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.

  Boethius

  Fate, Destiny, Feet

  Boethius, Aeterna Press (1964). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.9, Aeterna Press

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• Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.

  Boethius

  Heaven, Lasts, Admire

  Boethius (1999). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.52, OUP Oxford

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• As far as possible, join faith to reason.

  Boethius

  Reason

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• 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 them. [...] human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal, and even less free when they are entirely imprisoned in earthly flesh and blood.

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  Blood, Soul, Mind

  Boethius, David R Slavitt (2008). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.150, Harvard University Press

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• In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

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  Confidence, Ignorance, Men

  Boethius, Aeterna Press (2016). “Boethius Collection [2 Books]”, p.216, Aeterna Press

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• 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 it with equanimity.

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  Good Luck, Men, Thinking

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• Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

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  Essence, Games, Play

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• Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

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  Love, Valentines Day, Law

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• No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

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  Men, Fortune, Forsaken

  Boethius (2012). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

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  Individuality, Substance, Rational

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• For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

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  Men, Unhappy, Fortune

  De Consolatione Philosophiae bk. 2, prose 4 See Dante Alighieri 7

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• He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.

  Boethius

  Fate, Acceptance, Looks

  Boethius, Aeterna Press (1964). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.9, Aeterna Press

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• Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.

  Boethius

  Home, Men, May

  Boethius, Edward Kennard Rand (1953). “The theological tractates”

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