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Table of Contents

  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. Epigraph
  4. Preface
  5. Proem
  6. The Consolation of Philosophy
    1. Book I: The Sorrows of Boethius
      1. Song I: Boethius’ Complaint
      2. I
        1. Song II: His Despondency
      3. II
        1. Song III: The Mists Dispelled
      4. III
        1. Song IV: Nothing Can Subdue Virtue
      5. IV
        1. Song V: Boethius’ Prayer
      6. V
        1. Song VI: All Things Have Their Needful Order
      7. VI
        1. Song VII: The Perturbations of Passion
    2. Book II: The Vanity of Fortune’s Gifts
      1. I
        1. Song I: Fortune’s Malice
      2. II
        1. Song II: Man’s Covetousness
      3. III
        1. Song III: All Passes
      4. IV
        1. Song IV: The Golden Mean
      5. V
        1. Song V: The Former Age
      6. VI
        1. Song VI: Nero’s Infamy
      7. VII
        1. Song VII: Glory May Not Last
      8. VIII
        1. Song VIII: Love Is Lord of All
    3. Book III: True Happiness and False
      1. I
        1. Song I: The Thorns of Error
      2. II
        1. Song II: The Bent of Nature
      3. III
        1. Song III: The Insatiableness of Avarice
      4. IV
        1. Song IV: Disgrace of Honours Conferred by a Tyrant
      5. V
        1. Song V: Self-Mastery
      6. VI
        1. Song VI: True Nobility
      7. VII
        1. Song VII: Pleasure’s Sting
      8. VIII
        1. Song VIII: Human Folly
      9. IX
        1. Song IX: Invocation
      10. X
        1. Song X: The True Light
      11. XI
        1. Song XI: Reminiscence
      12. XII
        1. Song XII: Orpheus and Eurydice
    4. Book IV: Good and Ill Fortune
      1. I
        1. Song I: The Soul’s Flight
      2. II
        1. Song II: The Bondage of Passion
      3. III
        1. Song III: Circe’s Cup
      4. IV
        1. Song IV: The Unreasonableness of Hatred
      5. V
        1. Song V: Wonder and Ignorance
      6. VI
        1. Song VI: The Universal Aim
      7. VII
        1. Song VII: The Hero’s Path
    5. Book V: Free Will and God’s Foreknowledge
      1. I
        1. Song I: Chance
      2. II
        1. Song II: The True Sun
      3. III
        1. Song III: Truth’s Paradoxes
      4. IV
        1. Song IV: A Psychological Fallacy
      5. V
        1. Song V: The Upward Look
      6. VI
  7. Epilogue
  8. Endnotes
  9. Colophon
  10. Uncopyright

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  1. The Consolation of Philosophy
  2. Endnotes