Stark states: “Peace is not a commodity that can be bought or even forced. An inner desire for peace must be in the individual hearts of the warring parties." Therefore, anything that can be taken away was never truly in one's possession. This is in exact agreement with what Lady Philosophy is trying to teach Boethius: “you will realize that you have had, nor have you lost, anything of value through your association with [Lady Fortune]” (Boethius 19). Furthermore, Boethius is told that he "has no right to complain as if [he had] lost what is indisputably [his]" (Boethius 21). Lady Philosophy reminds Boethius that returning something lent to you is no cause for grief. “If happiness is the highest good of a rational nature, and if that which can in some way be taken from you cannot be the highest, it is obvious that the fluidity of Fortune cannot hope to conquer happiness” (Boethius 27). The only thing of true value cannot be taken away from you. Therefore, true happiness arises within us and is eternal; his only true possession is his