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Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of man. — Edward Gibbon

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

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

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

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy. Boethius, De — Robert Galbraith

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As far as possible, join faith to reason. — Boethius

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

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

Boethius says, nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn; — Umberto Eco

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

Nunc fluens facit tempus,
nunc stans facit aeternitatum.
(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.) — 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 bears it with equanimity. — Boethius

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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