Thou knowest that these things which I say are true, and that I was never delighted in my own praise, for the secret of a good conscience is in some sort diminished, when by declaring what he hath done, a man receiveth the reward of fame.
BoethiusMan is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
BoethiusContemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
Boethiusكلُّ قدرٍ هو قدرً سعيد لو أنك تلقيته بثباتٍ ورباطة جأش
BoethiusThe greatest misery in adverse fortune is once to have been happy.
BoethiusAnd it is because you don't know the end and purpose of things that you think the wicked and the criminal have power and happiness.
BoethiusSi tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.
BoethiusIf there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy
BoethiusTags: evil goodness nobility degeneration
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