If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
BoethiusGood men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?
BoethiusLove has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
BoethiusWhose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
BoethiusBalance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you are still way ahead. You are unhappy because you have lost those things in which you took pleasure? But you can also take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away.
Boethius