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“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.”
-- Boethius

#Positivity #Thinking #Hands
“Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.”
-- Boethius

#Music Is #United
“Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.”
-- Boethius

#Love #Valentines Day #Law
“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.”
-- Boethius

#Sadness #Thinking #Miserable
“In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.”
-- Boethius

#Adversity #Men #Affliction
“A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.”
-- Boethius

#Individuality #Substance #Rational
“A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.”
-- Boethius

#Depressing #Men #Heaven
“He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.”
-- Boethius

#Happiness #Wise #Virtuous
“If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?”
-- Boethius

#If There Is A God #Evil #There Is No God
“Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.”
-- Boethius

#Heaven #Lasts #Admire
“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?”
-- Boethius

#Mean #Men #Evil
“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.”
-- Boethius

#Thinking #Fame #Well Known
“Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that anger is hopeless, fear is pointless and desire all a delusion. He whose heart is fickle is not his own master, has thrown away his shield, deserted his post, and he forges the links of the chain that holds him.”
-- Boethius

#Heart #Men #Tyrants
“In omni adversitate fortunÃ¦, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.”
-- Boethius

#Kindness #Adversity #Unhappy
“...Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.”
-- Boethius

#Memories #Home #Men
“So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of them. [...] human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal, and even less free when they are entirely imprisoned in earthly flesh and blood.”
-- Boethius

#Blood #Soul #Mind
“It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,'? says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away.”
-- Boethius

#Essence #Tragedy #Passing Away
“In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.”
-- Boethius

#Confidence #Ignorance #Men
“Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?”
-- Boethius

#Happiness #Sides #Quarrels
“If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.”
-- Boethius

#Avoiding #Nobility
“So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.”
-- Boethius

#Good Luck #Men #Thinking
“No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.”
-- Boethius

#Men #Fortune #Forsaken
“The good is the end toward which all things tend.”
-- Boethius

#Goodness #Ends
“He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.”
-- Boethius

#Fate #Acceptance #Looks
“Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!”
-- Boethius

#God #Eye #Light
“The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.”
-- Boethius

#Single Mom #Perfect #Moments
“For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.”
-- Boethius

#Happiness #Depression #Adversity
“One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.”
-- Boethius

#Virtue #Fortune #Vicissitudes
“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.”
-- Boethius

#Balance #Unhappy #Passing Away
“Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.”
-- Boethius

#Men

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