Boethius Quotes

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

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

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior. - Boethius

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice. - Boethius

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good? - Boethius

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

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

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

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