Quotes from Boethius

Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

...Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.

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

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

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

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

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