“I know how Fortune is ever most friendly and alluring to those whom she strives to deceive, until she overwhelms them with grief beyond bearing, by deserting them when least expected … Are you trying to stay the force of her turning wheel? Ah! dull-witted mortal, if Fortune begin to stay still, she is no longer Fortune.”  ~ Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy

Thanks to John Kennedy O’Toole and A Confederacy of Dunces for introducing me to Boethius

Posted by: Kate Jonez

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