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52: The Consolation of Philosophy

Classical Stuff You Should Know

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The Wheel of Fortune

The book is about the medieval concept of fortune. The idea that good things in life are needed out at, well I was going to say a random distribution but that gets talked about at the end of the book. "We shouldn't be super happy when we get stuff because oftentimes we got it just because of our good block," says author Graham Greene.

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