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

- 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

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

- Boethius

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

- Boethius

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

- Boethius

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

- Boethius

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

- Boethius

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

- Boethius