Tonight I also began Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy. So far Boethius has met the incarnation of philosophy as a woman, and is discussing with her his fate and his perception of its unjustness. Not much else of substance happens in this chapter. The following four chapters look a bit more weighty.
"So there is nothing that thou shouldst wonder at, if on the seas of this life we are tossed by storm-blasts, seeing that we have made it our chiefest aim to refuse compliance with evildoers." Such is the benefit of philosophy, I suppose. An unending struggle with the unwashed hordes; made evil by a lack of proper education and virtue.
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