Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.Boethius
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.Boethius
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 time pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of time, like the best, are always passing away.Boethius
So it is that the mind of a man blind from birth, which has never seen the sunlight, is no different from that of the philosopher who has always looked upon the truth, so long as the teaching of philosophy has not enlightened him.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.Boethius
Who are you who offer boons to the bereaved? Your present enough for anyone is your mere presence.Boethius
For in all adversity of fortune, the most wretched kind is once to have been happy.Boethius
True happiness is to understand our duties toward God. For, as has been said, man is not disgraced by disabilities. Disgrace comes to those able and yet unwilling to practice the good of which they are capable. Applying this to the present matter, I maintain that it is the great blessing of this human life that we have to struggle to live well.Boethius
There is a wheel on which the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents anyone from being always fortunate.Boethius
Good fortune deceives, while bad fortune enlightens.Boethius