(b) The righteous never lack their reward, nor the wicked their punishment .-- CH.

IV.

(c) The wicked are more unhappy when they accomplish their desires than when they fail to attain them.
(d) Evil-doers are more fortunate when they expiate their crimes by suffering punishment than when they escape unpunished.

(e) The wrong-doer is more wretched than he who suffers injury .-- CH.

V.
Boethius still cannot understand why the distribution of happiness and misery to the righteous and the wicked seems the result of chance.