Boethius

And no renown can render you well-known:_x000D_ For if you think that fame can lengthen life _x000D_ By mortal famousness immortalized,_x000D_ The day will come that takes your fame as well,_x000D_ And there a second death for you awaits.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

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.

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

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.