Lucius Apuleius citáty
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Lucius Apuleius Platonicus bol rímsky spisovateľ berberského pôvodu – sám sa označuje ako spola Numid a spola Gétul -, známy predovšetkým vďaka svojmu románu Metamorphoses, tiež označovaného ako Aureus Asinus. Αpuleiov praenomen nie je doložený, ale býva stotožňovaný s menom hlavného hrdinu jeho románu, Luciom.
Citáty Lucius Apuleius
„Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.“
— Apuleius
De Deo Socratis (On the God of Socrates), ch. 4; p. 355.
Variant: Familiarity breeds contempt, but concealment excites interest.
„But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.“
— Apuleius
Apologia; seu, Pro Se de Magia (Apologia; or, A Discourse on Magic), ch. 80; pp. 326-7.
„Behold me, Lucius; moved by thy prayers, I appear to thee; I, who am Nature, the parent of all things, the mistress of all the elements, the primordial offspring of time, the supreme among Divinities, the queen of departed spirits, the first of the celestials, and the uniform manifestation of the Gods and Goddesses; who govern by my nod the luminous heights of heaven, the salubrious breezes of the ocean, and the anguished silent realms of the shades below: whose one sole divinity the whole orb of the earth venerates under a manifold form, with different rites, and under a variety of appellations.“
— Apuleius
Bk. 11, ch. 5; p. 226.
„Ad vivendum velut ad natandum is melior qui onere liberior.“
— Apuleius
It is with life just as with swimming; that man is the most expert who is the most disengaged from all encumbrances.
Apologia; seu, Pro Se de Magia (Apologia; or, A Discourse on Magic), ch. 21; p. 268.
„I approached the confines of death, and having trod on the threshold of Proserpine, I returned therefrom, being borne through all the elements. At midnight I saw the sun shining with its brilliant light; and I approached the presence of the Gods beneath, and the Gods of heaven, and stood near, and worshipped them.“
— Apuleius
Bk. 11, ch. 23; pp. 239-40.
Describing initiation into the mysteries of Isis.
