Boethius
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"Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius", commonly called "Boethius", was a philosopher of the early 6th century. He was born in Rome to the ancient and prominent family of the Anicia (gens)/Anicii , which included emperors Petronius Maximus and Olybrius and many Roman consul/consuls. His father, Flavius Manlius Boethius, was consul in 487 after Odoacer deposed the last Roman Emperor. Boethius himself entered public life at a young age and was already a Roman Senate/senator by the age of 25. He was consul in 510 in the kingdom of the Ostrogoths. In 522 he saw his two sons become consuls. Boethius was imprisoned and eventually executed by King Theodoric the Great, who suspected him of conspiring with the Byzantine Empire. While jailed, Boethius composed his Consolation of Philosophy, a philosophical treatise on fortune, death, and other issues. The Consolation became one of the most popular and influential works of the Middle Ages.

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

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

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

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.

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

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.

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