Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Boethius
Boethius -
Fortune
Quotes
5 Sourced Quotes
View all Boethius Quotes
Source
Report...
In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
Boethius
Source
Report...
For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.
Boethius
Source
Report...
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.
Boethius
Source
Report...
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
Boethius
Source
Report...
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
Boethius
Quote of the day
Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
Helen Rowland
Boethius
Creative Commons
Born:
480
Died:
524
(aged 44)
More about Boethius...
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes
