Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
Boethius
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
fortune adversity happy misery worst
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
good god
Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.
miserable
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
content man heaven
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
lovers law love give
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
men nature self-awareness living ignorance creatures vice
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior
music behavior part
For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
fortune man happy unhappy
happiness misery
Men who give up the common goal of all things that exist, thereby cease to exist themselves. Some may perhaps think it strange that we say that wicked men, who form the majority of men, do not exist; but that is how it is. I am not trying to deny the wickedness of the wicked; what I do deny is that their existence is absolute and complete existence. Just as you might call a corpse a dead man, but couldn't simply call it a man, so I would agree that the wicked are wicked, but could not agree that they have unqualified existence.
happiness evil good
So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of them. [..] human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal, and even less free when they are entirely imprisoned in earthly flesh and blood.
philosophy free-will reason
Quid autem de corporis uoluptatibus loquar, quarum appetentia quidem plena est anxietatis, satietas uero paenitentiae?
inspirational-attitude
You must log in to post a comment.
There are no comments yet.