Anicius Manlius Boëthius citáty
Anicius Manlius Boëthius
Dátum narodenia: 480
Ďalšie mená: Boëthius,Anicius Boethius,Аниций Манлий Торкват Северин Боэций,Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boethius
Anitius Manlius Severinus Torquatus Boethius bol antický kresťanský filozof a spisovateľ. Narodil sa v Ríme v rodine konzula. Sám však slúžil ako vládny úradník na ostrogótskom kráľovskom dvore. Neskôr ho ostrogótsky kráľ Teodorich Veľký dal popraviť kvôli podozreniu zo sprisahania. Je autorom významného filozofického diela De Consolatio Philosophiae , ktoré napísal vo väzení pred popravou. Prekladal a komentoval Aristotelove logické spisy.
Boethia označujú za „posledného Rimana a prvého scholastika“: pripravil cestu stredovekej scholastike.
Citáty Anicius Manlius Boëthius
„For if vicious propensity is, as it were, a disease of the soul like bodily sickness, even as we account the sick in body by no means deserving of hate, but rather of pity, so, and much more, should they be pitied whose minds are assailed by wickedness, which is more frightful than any sickness.“
— Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Prose IV; line 42; translation by H. R. James
Alternate translation:
For as faintness is a disease of the body, so is vice a sickness of the mind. Wherefore, since we judge those that have corporal infirmities to be rather worthy of compassion than of hatred, much more are they to be pitied, and not abhorred, whose minds are oppressed with wickedness, the greatest malady that may be.
„Thus, where'er the drift of hazard
Seems most unrestrained to flow,
Chance herself is reined and bitted,
And the curb of law doth know.“
— Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Poem I, lines 11-12; translation by H. R. James
„Who fain would sow the fallow field,
And see the growing corn,
Must first remove the useless weeds,
The bramble and the thorn.“
— Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Poem I, lines 1-4; translation by H. R. James
