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Boethius

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


— Boethius


#misery #misery

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


— Boethius


#love

Nunc fluens facit tempus, nunc stans facit aeternitatum. (The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)


— Boethius


#inspirational

Quid autem de corporis uoluptatibus loquar, quarum appetentia quidem plena est anxietatis, satietas uero paenitentiae?


— Boethius


#attitude

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


— Boethius


#degrades #either #ennobles #music #our

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


— Boethius


#content #go #heaven #man #never

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


— Boethius


#cometh #evils #god #good #many

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


— Boethius


#been #fortune #happy #misery #sort

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


— Boethius


#give #higher #itself #law #love is

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.


— Boethius


#nothing #think #unless #you






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Did you know about Boethius?

In Dante's Paradise of The Divine Comedy the spirit of Boethius is pointed out by St.  480–524 or 525 AD) was a philosopher of the early 6th century. However his father died when Boethius was young and he was adopted by another patrician Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus.

Boethius himself was consul in 510 in the kingdom of the Ostrogoths. Boethius of the noble Anicia family entered public life at a young age and was already a senator by the age of 25.  480–524 or 525 AD) was a philosopher of the early 6th century.

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