The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

Author:Boethius
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Religion, Philosophy, Classics, Catholicism, Christianity
ISBN: 9780141920375
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2003-04-24T04:00:00+00:00

‘Whoever deeply searches out the truth

And will not be decoyed down false by-ways,

Shall turn unto himself his inward gaze,

Shall bring his wandering thoughts in circle home

(5) And teach his heart that what it seeks abroad

It holds in its own treasuries within.

What error’s gloomy clouds have veiled before

Will then shine clearer than the sun himself.

Not all its light is banished from the mind

(10) By body’s matter which makes men forget.

The seed of truth lies hidden deep within,

And teaching fans the spark to take new life;

Why else unaided can man answer true,

Unless deep in the heart the touchwood burns?

(15) And if the muse of Plato speaks the truth,

Man but recalls what once he knew and lost.’14

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