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genius boethius

Boethius

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

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genius boethius

He is in no real danger. He merely suffers from a lethargy, a sickness that is common among the depressed. He has forgotten who he really is, but he will recover, for he used to know me, and all I have to do is cloud the mist that beclouds his vision.

genius boethius

Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

genius boethius

The greatest misery in adverse fortune is once to have been happy.

genius boethius

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.

genius boethius

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.

genius boethius

As far as possible, join faith to reason.

genius boethius

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

genius boethius

So dry your tears. Fortune has not yet turned her hatred against all your blessings. The storm has not yet broken upon you with too much violence. Your anchors are holding firm and they permit you both comfort in the present, and hope in the future.

genius boethius

And it is because you don't know the end and purpose of things that you think the wicked and the criminal have power and happiness.

genius boethius

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

genius boethius

Indeed, the condition of human nature is just this; man towers above the rest of creation so long as he realizes his own nature, and when he forgets it, he sinks lower than the beasts. For other living things to be ignorant of themselves, is natural; but for man it is a defect.

genius boethius

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.

genius boethius

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

genius boethius

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