Talihin Çarkı: Boethius ve Felsefenin Tesellisi

Did you not know my ways? Did you not know how Croesus, the king of the Lydians, who was previously formidable to Cyrus, the king of the Persians, was afterward captured by Cyrus and delivered to the fires to be burned, but was defended by rain sent from heaven and escaped? Does it also escape you how Paulus, the Roman consul, shed pious tears over the calamities of the Persian king whom he had captured? For what else does the clamor of tragedies lament except me, Fortune, overturning happy kingdoms with an indiscriminate blow? Being a young man, did you not learn that there lie in the house of Jove two urns, one good, the other evil, from which it was necessary for everyone entering to taste? Why do you complain if you have taken more generously from the portion of goods? Why do you complain if I have not departed from you entirely? Why do you complain if this mutability of mine is a just cause for you to hope for better things? Nevertheless, do not waste away, and since you are placed within a kingdom common to all, namely the world, you desire to live by your own law, because this cannot be, that you should be exempted from the common law of men.