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Boethius quotes: We cannot raise the question: How can there be evil if God exists? without raising the second: How can there be good if He exists not?

We cannot raise the question: How can there be evil if God exists? without raising the second: How can there be good if He exists not?

Boethius quotes: I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

Boethius quotes: He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

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

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

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

Boethius quotes: If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy

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

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

Boethius quotes: Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

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

Boethius quotes: There is no danger: he is suffering from drowsiness, that disease which attacks so many minds which have been deceived.

There is no danger: he is suffering from drowsiness, that disease which attacks so many minds which have been deceived.

Boethius quotes: For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Boethius quotes: And it is because you don't know the end and purpose of things that you think the wicked and the criminal have power and happiness.

And it is because you don't know the end and purpose of things that you think the wicked and the criminal have power and happiness.

Boethius quotes: Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

Boethius quotes: Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.

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

Boethius quotes: Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.

Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.

Boethius quotes: Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

Boethius quotes: The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.

The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of
unlimited life at a single moment.

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

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

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

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

Boethius quotes: No man is rich who shakes and groansConvinced that he needs more.

No man is rich who shakes and groans
Convinced that he needs more.

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

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

Boethius quotes: You have the chief spark of your health's fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.

You have the chief spark of your health's fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.

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

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

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

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

Boethius quotes: A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

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

Boethius quotes: Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)

Nunc fluens facit tempus,
nunc stans facit aeternitatum.
(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)

Boethius quotes: 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.

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.

Boethius quotes: In other living creatures ignorance of self is nature; in man it is vice.

In other living creatures ignorance of self is nature; in man it is vice.

Boethius quotes: The good is the end toward which all things tend.

The good is the end toward which all things tend.

Boethius quotes: A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Boethius quotes: Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.

Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.

Boethius quotes: Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!

Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!

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

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

Boethius quotes: Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

Boethius quotes: Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

Boethius quotes: As far as possible, join faith to reason.

As far as possible, join faith to reason.

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

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

Boethius quotes: The greatest misery in adverse fortune is once to have been happy.

The greatest misery in adverse fortune is once to have been happy.