De consolatione philosophiae (Consolation of Philosophy)
In five books, Boethius converses with a female
personification of philosophy,who appears to
offer him consolation; “You are playing with me,” I said,
“by weaving a labyrinthine argument from which I cannot escape.
You seem to begin where you ended and end where
“by weaving a labyrinthine argument from which I cannot escape.
You seem to begin where you ended and end where
you began. Are you perhaps making a marvelous
circle of
divine simplicity?”
Book III, prose 12 , Verse 96
Anicius Manulius Severinius Boethius (ca 480-524 CE)
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