The Consolation of Philosophy
Boethius
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.”
“Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.”
“Nunc fluens facit tempus, nunc stans facit aeternitatum. (The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)”
“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.”
“All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.”
“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.”
“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.”
“No man is rich who shakes and groans Convinced that he needs more.”
“The greatest misery in adverse fortune is once to have been happy.”
“Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred. For no one except the greatest of fools would hate good men. And there is no reason at all for hating the bad. For just as weakness is a disease of the body, so wickedness is a disease of the mind. And if this is so, since we think of people who are sick in body as deserving sympathy rather than hatred, much more so do they deserve pity rather than blame who suffer an evil more severe than any physical illness.”
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