The Consolation of Philosophy
What is the one value that can never be taken away, even when I lose everything and am trapped in darkness?
📝ONGO's Reflection
Boethius, fallen overnight from the height of power to a condemned prisoner. When I encountered this book he wrote in a cold cell, I finally understood what true philosophy is. Lady Philosophy, who comes to him in his despair, awakens in him a firmness of soul that the wheel of fortune cannot toss about. Wealth and honor can be reclaimed by fate at any moment, but inner goodness and wisdom no one can take away. Whenever I feel my life has hit bottom, I turn without fail to these pages and find consolation.
"You believe Fortune has changed towards you. You are wrong. This was always her way, always her nature."Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
"운명의 여신이 네게서 미소를 거두었다고 원망하지 마라. 그녀는 그저 자신의 본성인 변덕을 부렸을 뿐이다."
🌱Apply It Today
List the external conditions you constantly fear losing, then find one inner value of your own that would remain unchanged even if all of them vanished.
