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.
He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy. - Boethius
He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
- Boethius
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven. - Boethius
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just. - Boethius
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so. - Boethius
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune. - Boethius
One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy. - Boethius
In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin. - Boethius
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired. - Boethius
Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good? - Boethius
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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