The Consolation of Philosophy (Mint Editions (Philosophical and Theological Work))

Alain de Botton is a British author, intellectual and co-founder of the global organisation, 'The School of Life'. He is best known for the books, 'Essays in Love', 'How Proust Can Change Your Life', and 'The Consolations of Philosophy'.

Oxford University Press published his book The Consolation of Beethius as Boethius as poetic liturgy in 2015

I've been rereading Boethius this week.

the charge of Cyprianus is false, but if Albinus did that, so also have I, and the whole senate with one accord done it. It is false, my lord king,

everything is known not according to itself but according to the capacity of the knower

if I have fully diagnosed the cause and nature of your condition, you are wasting away and pining and longing for your former good fortune. It is the loss of this which, as your imagination works upon you, has so corrupted your mind. I know the many disguises of that monster, fortune, and the extent to which she seduces with friendship the very people she is striving to cheat, until she overwhelms them with the unbearable grief at the suddenness of her desertion.

balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life, and you will have to acknowledge that you are still way ahead. You are unhappy because you have lost those things in which you took pleasure, but you can also take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away.

one's virtue is all that one truly has because it's not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune