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Boethius

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December 31, 0479 in Rome, Italy

died

December 30, 0524

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Philosophy

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius,[1][2][3] commonly called Boethius (ca. 480–524 or 525 AD) was a philosopher of the early 6th century. He was born in Rome to an ancient and prominent family which included emperors Petronius Maximus and Olybrius and many consuls.[3] His father, Flavius Manlius Boethius, was consul in 487 after Odoacer deposed the last Western Roman Emperor. Boethius, of the noble Anicia family, entered public life at a young age and was already a senator by the age of 25.[4] Boethius himself was consul in 510 in the kingdom of the Ostrogoths. In 522 he saw his two sons become consuls.[5] Boethius was imprisoned and eventually executed by King Theodoric the Great,[6] who suspected him of conspiring with the Eastern Empire....more

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Average rating: 3.90 · 569 ratings · 15 reviews · 34 distinct works

	The Consolation of Philosophy: Revised Edition by Boethius, Victor Watts (Translator), Ancius Boethius 3.87 avg rating — 1,990 ratings — published 524 — 104 editions	My rating:
	Theological Tractates. the Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, Edward Kennard Rand (Translator), H.F. Stewart (Translator) 4.13 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 524 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Chaucer's Translation of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiæ 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings	My rating:
	Fortune's Prisoner: The Poems of The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, James Harpur (Translator) 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The Consolation of Philosophy, with The Imitation of Christ and Religio Medici by Boethius, Thomas à Kempis 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1943	My rating:
	Fundamentals Of Music 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings	My rating:
	The Theological Tractates by Boethius, H.F. Stewart (Translator), E.K. Rand (Translator) 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	The Trinity is One God Not Three Gods 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Funf Bucher Uber Die Musik 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Comment on Aristotles 2vl 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 4 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Boethius

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

tags: happiness , misery

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“Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.”
― Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy

tags: love

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“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

tags: inspirational

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