Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
Interpretation
True contentment comes from appreciating one's own achievements and status rather than seeking external validation.
This quote by Boethius emphasizes the importance of finding satisfaction and pride in one's own life and accomplishments. Instead of yearning for the recognition and glory that may come from society or the world at large, it suggests that individuals should find joy and fulfillment in what they can attain and appreciate within their own surroundings and personal achievements.
In practice
During a motivational speech about self-acceptance to encourage individuals to embrace their unique paths.
And no renown can render you well-known:_x000D_ For if you think that fame can lengthen life _x000D_ By mortal famousness immortalized,_x000D_ The day will come that takes your fame as well,_x000D_ And there a second death for you awaits.
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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.
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must write, and elegiac verses bathe my face with real tears. Not even terror could drive from me these faithful companions of my long journey. Poetry, which was once the glory of my happy and flourishing youth, is still my comfort in this misery of my old age.
Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.
The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy the gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people; then shall we both deserve and enjoy it. While on the other hand, if we are universally vicious and debauched in our manners, though the form of our Constitution carries the face of the most exalted freedom, we shall in reality be the most abject slaves.
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