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Book Four
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- Book Four
- Chapter I - Concerning That Most Unhappy Time In Which He, Being Deceived, Deceived Others; And Concerning The Mockers Of His Confession.
- Chapter II - He Teaches Rhetoric, The Only Thing He Loved, And Scorns The Soothsayer, Who Promised Him Victory.
- Chapter III - Not Even The Most Experienced Men Could Persuade Him Of The Vanity Of Astrology, To Which He Was Devoted.
- Chapter IV - Sorely Distressed By Weeping At The Death Of His Friend, He Provides Consolation For Himself.
- Chapter IX - That The Love of A Human Being, However Constant In Loving And Returning Love, Perishes; While He Who Loves God Never Loses A Friend
- Chapter V - Why Weeping Is Pleasant To The Wretched.
- Chapter VI - His Friend Being Snatched Away By Death, He Imagines That He Remains Only As Half.
- Chapter VII - Troubled By Restlessness And Grief, He Leaves His Country A Second Time For Carthage.
- Chapter VIII - That His Grief Ceased By Time, And The Consolation Of Friends.
- Chapter X - That All Things Exist That They May Perish, And That We Are Not Safe Unless God Watches Over Us.
- Chapter XI - That Portions Of The World Are Not To Be Loved; But That God, Their Author, Is Immutable, And His Word Eternal.
- Chapter XII - Love Is Not Condemned, But Love In God, In Whom There Is Rest Through Jesus Christ, Is To Be Preferred.
- Chapter XIII - Love Originates From Grace, And Beauty Enticing Us.
- Chapter XIV - Concerning The Books Which He Wrote "On The Fair And Fit," Dedicated To Hierius.
- Chapter XV - While Writing, Being Blinded By Corporeal Images, He Failed To Recognise The Spiritual Nature Of God.
- Chapter XVI - He Very Easily Understood The Liberal Arts And The Categories Of Aristotle, But Without True Fruit.
- Contents - Book IV