Boethius

Source context

This English passage is associated with The Consolation of Philosophy, Book II, within the tradition of Late Antique Philosophy. The wording below is a verified rendering prepared for careful reading rather than a claim of unique translation authority.

A short reading

Read in the register of friendship, the sentence asks the reader to test an assumption rather than to collect a slogan. In Boethius's wider work, similar claims are usually offered as prompts for judgment: what would have to be true for the sentence to hold, and what would follow if it did?

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Chicago: Boethius. “In the bitterest turns of fortune, true friends….” Philosophy Blind Box. Accessed 2026. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0132.