By first recognizing false goods, you begin to escape the burden of their influence… — Boethius
By first recognizing false goods, you begin to escape the burden of their influence; then afterwards true goods may gain possession of your spirit.
In the original Latin
Tu quoque falsa tuens bona prius, incipe colla iugo retrahere: Uera dehinc animum subierint.
The Consolation of Philosophy · 523
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Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy, translated by Victor Watts. Penguin Classics, 1999, bk. 3, poem 1.
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Boethius. De Consolatione Philosophiae [On the Consolation of Philosophy]. 524, bk. 3, poem 1.