He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
Interpretation
Virtue leads to wisdom, wisdom leads to goodness, and goodness leads to happiness.
This quote by Boethius emphasizes a moral progression: a virtuous person gains wisdom, which in turn fosters goodness. This relationship suggests that true happiness is a result of living a life aligned with virtue and wisdom, illustrating the interconnectedness of morality and well-being.
In practice
A motivational speaker could use this quote to illustrate the importance of virtue in achieving happiness.
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.
I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.
Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
There is moderation in everything.
Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place.
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