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Boethius Quotes


A Christian philosopher of the early 6th century.
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius, commonly called Boethius (ca. 480–524 or 525) was a Christian philosopher of the early 6th century. He was born in Rome to an ancient and important family which included emperors Petronius Maximus and Olybrius and many consuls. His father, Flavius Manlius Boethius, was consul in 487 after Odoacer deposed the last Western Roman Emperor. Boethius, of the noble Anicius lineage, entered public life at a young age and was already a senator by the age of 25. Boethius himself was consul in 510 in the kingdom of the Ostrogoths. In 522 he saw his two sons become consuls. Boethius was imprisoned and eventually executed by King Theodoric the Great, who suspected him of conspiring with the Eastern Empire. While jailed, Boethius composed his Consolation of Philosophy, a philosophical treatise on fortune, death, and other issues. The Consolation became one of the most popular and influential works of the Middle Ages. 

Here are some famous quotes by Boethius.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

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

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

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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.

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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.

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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature but in men it is a vice.