An idea from The Consolation of Philosophy

Philosophy turns from Fortune to happiness itself. Everyone wants it, but people chase it down different roads: money, respect, power, fame, pleasure. Each fails at its own promise. Money needs guards, office can’t make a bad man respected, and a king lives under a hanging sword.

From The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

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