The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of Boethius More Quotes by Boethius More Quotes From Boethius No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune. Boethius forsakenfortunemen 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 fatedestinyfeet And no renown can render you well-known: Boethius well-knownfamethinking 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 musicrealsong Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.) Boethius remainsproduceeternity 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 adversityunhappykindness Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content. Boethius estatesmiserablebears Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home. Boethius homemaymen For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy Boethius unhappyfortunemen 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 starsheartorder Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself. Boethius knowsmen The good is the end toward which all things tend. Boethius goodnessendsall-things 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 acquisitionsecretnumbers Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things. Boethius admirelastsheaven If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy. Boethius avoidingnobilityifs Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior. Boethius aggravationmusic-isbehavior A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven. Boethius feeling-alonedepressingmen All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just. Boethius rewardsdisciplinefortune Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee! Boethius lighteyegod
