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The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius

Form
Form Philosophy
Year
Year 524 CE
Originally in
Originally in Latin
Pages
Pages 100

In a cell awaiting execution on false charges, a statesman is visited by Philosophy herself, who argues him out of despair: fortune's wheel always turns, and the only good it cannot touch is within.

nothing is wretched, but thinking makes it so
The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius

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