"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 (The Consolation of Philosophy)

"...Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home."
— Boethius

"Nunc fluens facit tempus,
nunc stans facit aeternitatum.

(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)"
— Boethius (The Consolation of Philosophy: Revised Edition)

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

"One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune."
— Boethius

""Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that anger is hopeless, fear is pointless and desire all a delusion. He whose heart is fickle is not his own master, has thrown away his shield, deserted his post, and he forges the links of the chain that holds him."
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— Boethius

"As far as possible, join faith to reason."
— Boethius