Boethius Quotes - Page 2

• You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

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  Valentines Day, Fun, Heart

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

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  Avoiding, Nobility, Ifs

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", pp. 559-560, 1922.

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

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  Intellectual, Suffering, Love And Friendship

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• Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?

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  Mal, Hombres, Mal

  Boethius (2012). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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

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  Eternity, Produce, Remains

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• And no renown can render you well-known:
  For if you think that fame can lengthen life
  By mortal famousness immortalized,
  The day will come that takes your fame as well,
  And there a second death for you awaits.

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  Thinking, Fame, Well Known

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• 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 misfortune.

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  Kindness, Adversity, Unhappy

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• The good is the end toward which all things tend.

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  Goodness, Ends, All Things

  Boethius (2012). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.

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  Stars, Heart, Order

  Boethius, David R Slavitt (2008). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.

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  Numbers, Secret, Acquisition

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

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  Hombres, Sabe

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

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  Wisdom, Illumination, Answers

  Boethius, Aeterna Press (2016). “Boethius Collection [2 Books]”, p.26, Aeterna Press

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

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  Happiness, Sides, Quarrels

  Boethius, Aeterna Press (1964). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.25, Aeterna Press

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

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  God, Eye, Light

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

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  Aggravation, Behavior, Music Is

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• I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must write, and elegiac verses bathe my face with real tears. Not even terror could drive from me these faithful companions of my long journey. Poetry, which was once the glory of my happy and flourishing youth, is still my comfort in this misery of my old age.

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  Music, Song, Real

  Boethius (2012). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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

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  Memories, Home, Men

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

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  Single Mom, Perfect, Moments

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

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  Bears, Miserable, Estates

  Boethius, Aeterna Press (2016). “Boethius Collection [2 Books]”, p.212, Aeterna Press

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

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  Happiness, Depression, Depressing

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