The Consolation of Philosophy
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Melioribus animum conformaveris, nihil opus est judice præmium deferente, tu te ipse excellentioribus addidisti; studium ad pejora deflexeris, extra ne quæsieris ultorem, tu te ipse in deteriora trusisti.…
Details
- AuthorBoethius
- SourceProject Gutenberg #14328
- Length42,298 words · 2h 49m of reading
- Chapters21
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-28
Contents
21 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01Translated into English Prose and Verse
- 02BOOK I. THE SORROWS OF BOETHIUS.
- 03BOOK II. THE VANITY OF FORTUNE'S GIFTS.
- 04BOOK III. TRUE HAPPINESS AND FALSE.
- 05BOOK IV. GOOD AND ILL FORTUNE.
- 06BOOK V. FREE WILL AND GOD'S FOREKNOWLEDGE.
- 07BOOK I.
- 08BOOK I.
- 09ALL THINGS HAVE THEIR NEEDFUL ORDER
- 10Summary
- 11BOOK II.
- 12SUMMARY
- 13BOOK III.
- 14SONG IX.[I
- 15REMINISCENCE.[J
- 16BOOK IV.
- 17BOOK IV.
- 18BOOK V.
- 19BOOK V.
- 20A PSYCHOLOGICAL FALLACY.[R
- 21EPILOGUE.
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