85 Quotes by Boethius

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    For in every ill turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

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

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    Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.

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    I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must write, and elegiac verses bathe my face with real tears. Not even terror could drive from me these faithful companions of my long journey. Poetry, which was once the glory of my happy and flourishing youth, is still my comfort in this misery of my old age.

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    The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.

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