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Boethius

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#Boethius

Boethius · c. 477–524 CE

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“A man awaiting execution wrote a dialogue with Lady Philosophy instead of a plea for mercy — and for a thousand years, whenever Europeans suffered, this was the book they reached for.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 62

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“Fortune can take everything she ever gave you, because none of it was ever truly yours; the one good she cannot touch is the one philosophy leads you to — and from a timeless God's point of view, even your freedom and his knowledge fit together.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 62

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