Sunday's Quotation

Severinus Boethius (c480-c524) was a Christian philosopher in the waning days of the Western Roman Empire. Here's something from his best-known work, The Consolation of Philosophy (that's Boethius on the left in the picture, conversing with his muse, Philosophy):

"The supreme good which men seek is happiness; at this
they aim in various ways. Some seek it through wealth.
Now, wealth cannot make its possessor independent and
free from all want; yet this is what it seems to promise.
Every day the stronger wrest it from the weaker without
his consent. So the wealth which a man thought would
make him independent, actually puts him in need
of further protection."