Q0133

Boethius

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English

Wealth does not take away need — it kindles new wants.
Thinker Boethius
School Late Antique Philosophy
Source The Consolation of Philosophy, Book III
Theme Wealth
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Source context

This English passage is associated with The Consolation of Philosophy, Book III, 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 wealth, 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?

How to cite this quotation

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Chicago: Boethius. “Wealth does not take away need — it….” Philosophy Blind Box. Accessed 2026. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0133.

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  1. In the bitterest turns of fortune, true friends are proved.
  2. Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

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  1. Virtue does not come from money, but from virtue come money and all other good things for human beings.
  2. The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, thought of saying 'This is mine'…was the true founder of civil society.
  3. What a person is stands far more in his power than what he has.

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