List of Boethius Quotes

...whose Souls, Albeit In A Cloudy Memory, Yet Seek Back Their Good, But, Like Drunk Men, Know Not The Road Home.

If There Is Anything Good About Nobility It Is That It Enforces The Necessity Of Avoiding Degeneracy.

For In All Adversity Of Fortune The Worst Sort Of Misery Is To Have Been Happy.

The Completely Simultaneous And Perfect Possession Of Unlimited Life At A Single Moment.

Nothing Is Miserable But What Is Thought So, And Contrariwise, Every Estate Is Happy If He That Bears It Be Content.

Man Is So Constituted That He Then Only Excels Other Things When He Knows Himself.

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.

Music Is Part Of Us, And Either Ennobles Or Degrades Our Behavior.

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.

Whose Happiness Is So Firmly Established That He Has No Quarrel From Any Side With His Estate Of Life?

Every Man Must Be Content With That Glory Which He May Have At Home.

For In Every Ill-turn Of Fortune The Most Unhappy Sort Of Unfortunate Man Is The One Who Has Been Happy