4 Quotes by Boethius about happiness

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

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    Since it is through the possession of happiness that people become happy, and since happiness is in fact divinity, it is clear that it is through the possession of divinity that they become happy. But by the same logic as men become just through the possession of justice, or wise through the possession of wisdom, so those who possess divinity necessarily become divine. Each happy individual is therefore divine. While only God is so by nature, as many as you like may become so by participation.

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

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    He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

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