The Consolations of PhilosophyAlain de Botton, best selling author of How Proust can Change Your Life, has set six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of everyday life. Here then are Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche . . . A much loved volume of classic Alain de Botton wisdom a book of philosophy that helps us to live Alain de Botton has set six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the