Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 480 Death: 524
The good is the end toward which all things tend..
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 ….
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment..
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice..
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior..
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 y….
Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?.
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face..
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….
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature..
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 ar….
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 elegia….
Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!.
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 sur….
For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy..
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….
Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.).
Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content..
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law..
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it..