The Consolation of Philosophy

THE SORROWS OF BOETHIUS. SONG PAGE I. BOETHIUS' COMPLAINT 3 II. HIS DESPONDENCY 9 I...

THE VANITY OF FORTUNE'S GIFTS. I. FORTUNE'S MALICE 47 II. MAN'S COVETOUSNESS 51 III. ALL PASSES ...

TRUE HAPPINESS AND FALSE. I. THE THORNS OF ERROR 93 II. THE BENT OF NATURE 99 III. THE INSATIABLENESS OK AVARICE 1...

GOOD AND ILL FORTUNE. I. THE SOUL'S FLIGHT 166 II. THE BONDAGE OF PASSION 177 III. CIRCE'S CUP 182 ...

FREE WILL AND GOD'S FOREKNOWLEDGE. I. CHANCE 229 II. THE TRUE SUN 233 III. TRUTH'S PARADOXES ...

THE SORROWS OF BOETHIUS. SUMMARY. Boethius' complaint (Song I.).--CH. I. Philosophy appears to Boethius, drives away the Muses of Poetry, and herself laments ...

SONG I. BOETHIUS' COMPLAINT. Who wrought my studious numbers Smoothly once in happier days, Now perforce in tears and sadness Learn a mournful strain to raise...

THE VANITY OF FORTUNE'S GIFTS Summary CH. I. Philosophy reproves Boethius for the foolishness of his complaints against Fortune. Her very nature is caprice.--CH. I...

I. Thereafter for awhile she remained silent; and when she had restored my flagging attention by a moderate pause in her discourse, she thus began: 'If I have thoroughly ascertain...

TRUE HAPPINESS AND FALSE. SUMMARY CH. I. Boethius beseeches Philosophy to continue. She promises to lead him to true happiness.--CH. II. Happiness is the one end w...

I. She ceased, but I stood fixed by the sweetness of the song in wonderment and eager expectation, my ears still strained to listen. And then after a little I said: 'Thou sovereig...

GOOD AND ILL FORTUNE. SUMMARY. CH. I. The mystery of the seeming moral confusion. Philosophy engages to make this plain, and to fulfil her former promise to the ...

I. Softly and sweetly Philosophy sang these verses to the end without losing aught of the dignity of her expression or the seriousness of her tones; then, forasmuch as I was as ye...

FREE WILL AND GOD'S FOREKNOWLEDGE. SUMMARY. CH. I. Boethius asks if there is really any such thing as chance. Philosophy answers, in conformity with Aristotle's de...

I. She ceased, and was about to pass on in her discourse to the exposition of other matters, when I break in and say: 'Excellent is thine exhortation, and such as well beseemeth t...