Status Updates From The Consolation of Philosophy

Hoopla finally would open the book again

“But who to love can give a law?/ Love unto love itself is law”

Book is done; some semblance of a review to come, because this thing is way denser than its short length would suggest (I say this affectionately)

“Your own nature doesn’t make you look beautiful. It is due to the weak eyesight of the people who see you.”

Ouch, Boethius, tell me how you really feel…

'"It isn't right for a mortal to try to understand in his mind or express with his words all the tools of divine workmanship."'

'"Each blessed man is therefore a god, but indeed in nature God is one; by participation there is nothing to prevent there being as many gods as you like."'

'The only good there is in nobility, I think, is this: noble men seem obliged to live up to the virtue of their ancestors.'