Quotes by Boethius

Boethius

…Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.

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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

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And no renown can render you well-known: For if you think that fame can lengthen life By mortal famousness immortalized, The day will come that takes your fame as well, And there a second death for you awaits.

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Thinking

Well Known

Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you are still way ahead. You are unhappy because you have lost those things in which you took pleasure? But you can also take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away.

Balance

Passing Away

Unhappy

Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.

Admire

Heaven

Lasts

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Depressing

Depression

Happiness

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

Fortune

Men

Unhappy

Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don’t you agree?

Evil

Mean

Men

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.

Acceptance

Fate

Looks

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.

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Fate

Feet

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Quotes by Boethius

Boethius

…Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

And no renown can render you well-known: For if you think that fame can lengthen life By mortal famousness immortalized, The day will come that takes your fame as well, And there a second death for you awaits.

Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don’t you agree?

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.

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.

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