If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces
the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
Boethius
Related
England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's f...
XAVI Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I've made three films and this is th...
JASON REITMAN I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace ...
JOE BIDEN Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I...
JULIE ANDREWS Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birt...
JON MEACHAM The whole world is a man's birthplace.
CAECILIUS STATIUS Most people don't know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground... in New O...
JOY HARJO Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.
HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.
FREDERIC CHOPIN We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and t...
IRWIN ROSE
More Boethius
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
BOETHIUS In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
BOETHIUS In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most
unhappy kind of misfortune.
[Lat., ...
BOETHIUS So dry your tears. Fortune has not yet turned her hatred against all your blessings. The storm has n...
BOETHIUS Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so
BOETHIUS Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior
BOETHIUS For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
BOETHIUS If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
BOETHIUS A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven
BOETHIUS Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless ...
BOETHIUS For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been ha...
BOETHIUS Nunc fluens facit tempus,
nunc stans facit aeternitatum.
(The now that passes produc...
BOETHIUS There is no danger: he is suffering from drowsiness, that disease which attacks so many minds which ...
BOETHIUS No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
BOETHIUS, 522 Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; conversely, every lot is happy to one who is content wi...
ANICIUS BOETHIUS Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law to itself.
BOETHIUS (ANICIUS MANLIUS SEVERINUS) If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy...
BOETHIUS (ANICIUS MANLIUS SEVERINUS) So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the ...
BOETHIUS (ANICIUS MANLIUS SEVERINUS) Another cause of your sickness, and the most important: you have forgotten what you are.
BOETHIUS (ANICIUS MANLIUS SEVERINUS) It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,' says the wheel. Ris...
BOETHIUS (ANICIUS MANLIUS SEVERINUS) With domineering hand she moves the turning wheel,
Like currents in a treacherous bay swept to ...
BOETHIUS - QUEEN ELIZABETH I TRANSLATION