Alain de Botton

“The speaker recalls a story from Boethius about his imprisonment and the hardships he faced.”

“He realizes in his book, On Suicide, published in 1900, that modern societies, for all their advantages, leads their members, a share of their members, often the most ambitious of their members, to take their own lives.”

“He realizes in his book, On Suicide, published in 1900, that modern societies, for all their advantages, leads their members, a share of their members, often the most ambitious of their members, to take their own lives.”

“the book that we really won't have finished reading is the book of ourselves.”