He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy. Boethius More Quotes by Boethius More Quotes From Boethius 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. Boethius fate destiny feet And no renown can render you well-known: Boethius well-known fame thinking 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. Boethius music real song Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.) Boethius remains produce eternity In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune. Boethius adversity unhappy kindness Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content. Boethius estates miserable bears Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home. Boethius home may men For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy Boethius unhappy fortune men Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts. Boethius stars heart order Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself. Boethius knows men The good is the end toward which all things tend. Boethius goodness ends all-things The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of Boethius single-mom moments perfect As far as possible, join faith to reason. Boethius reason 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 mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none. Boethius acquisition secret numbers Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things. Boethius admire lasts heaven If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy. Boethius avoiding nobility ifs Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior. Boethius aggravation music-is behavior A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven. Boethius feeling-alone depressing men All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just. Boethius rewards discipline fortune Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee! Boethius light eye god
