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Вариант: Порок не остаётся безнаказанным, так как быть порочным — это уже наказание.

„Мысль о смерти более жестока, чем сама смерть.“

„Если бы ты молчал, то и остался бы философом.“

Добавить примечание: (la) Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.

„Величайшее несчастье — быть счастливым в прошлом.“

„Любовь не знает законов.“

Источник: Кожевников А. Ю., Линдберг Г. Б.. «Мудрость веков. Запад» http://books.google.ru/books?id=S6CigHvYHdsC&pg=PA352&lpg=PA352&dq=%D0%9B%D1%8E%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%8C+%D0%BD%D0%B5+%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B5%D1%82+%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2.+%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%8D%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B9&source=bl&ots=aPEiO-8CUd&sig=X91nrsfzaJQmEXri2cX6A5hYL7I&hl=ru&sa=X&ei=2OMBUayOBpTT4QTywYH4DA&ved=0CFIQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%D0%9B%D1%8E%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%8C%20%D0%BD%D0%B5%20%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B5%D1%82%20%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2.%20%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%8D%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B9&f=false

„Человек - двуногое разумное существо.“

„In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.“

Prose IV, line 2
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book II
Добавить примечание: (la) Nam in omni adversitate fortunae infelicissimum est genus infortunii fuisse felicem.

„Who fain would sow the fallow field,
And see the growing corn,
Must first remove the useless weeds,
The bramble and the thorn.“

Poem I, lines 1-4; translation by H. R. James
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book III
Добавить примечание: (la) Qui serere ingenuum uolet agrum
liberat arua prius fruticibus,
falce rubos filicemque resecat,
ut noua fruge grauis Ceres eat.

„For when every judgement is the act of hym that judgeth, it behoveth that every man performe hys worke and purpose, not by any forayne or straunge power or facultie, but by his owne proper power, and strength.“

Tr. George Colville (1556); source https://books.google.com/books?id=649EAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA129
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book V

„If you would give every man as he deserves, then love the good and pity those who are evil.“

Poem IV, lines 11-12; translation by Richard H. Green
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book IV
Добавить примечание: (la) Vis aptam meritis uicem referre:
Dilige iure bonos et miseresce malis.

„Wherefore not without cause has one of your own followers asked, "If God is, whence come evil things? If He is not, whence come good?"“

Prose IV, line 30; translation by W.V. Cooper
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book I
Добавить примечание: (la) Unde haud iniuria tuorum quidam familiarium quaesiuit: `si quidem deus', inquit, `est, unde mala? Bona uero unde, si non est?

„Who hath so entire happiness that he is not in some part offended with the condition of his estate?“

Prose IV, line 12
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book II
Добавить примечание: (la) Quis est enim tam compositae felicitatis ut non aliqua ex parte cum status sui qualitate rixetur?

„Thou seest, then, in what foulness unrighteous deeds are sunk, with what splendour righteousness shines. Whereby it is manifest that goodness never lacks its reward, nor crime its punishment.“

Prose III, line 1; translation by H. R. James
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book IV
Добавить примечание: (la) Videsne igitur quanto in caeno probra volvantur, qua probitas luce resplendeat? In quo perspicuum est numquam bonis praemia, numquam sua sceleribus deesse supplicia.

„O happy race of mortals,
if your hearts are ruled
as is the universe, by Love!“

Poem VIII, lines 28-30; translation by W. V. Cooper
Alternate translation:
: How happy is mankind
if the love that orders the stars above
rules, too, in your hearts.
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book II
Добавить примечание: (la) O felix hominum genus,
si uestros animos amor
quo caelum regitur regat!

„Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law to itself.“

Poem XII, lines 47-48
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book III
Добавить примечание: (la) Quis legem det amantibus?
Maior lex amor est sibi.

„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.“

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.
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book IV
Добавить примечание: (la) Nam si uti corporum languor ita vitiositas quidam est quasi morbus animorum, cum aegros corpore minime dignos odio sed potius miseratione iudicemus, multo magis non insequendi sed miserandi sunt quorum mentes omni languore atrocior urguet improbitas.

„By first recognizing false goods, you begin to escape the burden of their influence; then afterwards true goods may gain possession of your spirit.“

Poem I, lines 11-13; translation by Richard H. Green
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book III
Добавить примечание: (la) Tu quoque falsa tuens bona prius
incipe colla iugo retrahere:
Vera dehinc animum subierint.

„Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.“

Prose IV, line 18
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book II
Добавить примечание: (la) Adeo nihil est miserum nisi cum putes, contraque beata sors omnis est aequanimitate tolerantis.

„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.“

Poem I, lines 11-12; translation by H. R. James
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book V
Добавить примечание: (la) Sic quae permissis fluitare videtur habenis
Fors patitur frenos ipsaque lege meat.

„When she [Philosophy] saw that the Muses of poetry were present by my couch giving words to my lamenting, she was stirred a while; her eyes flashed fiercely, and said she, "Who has suffered these seducing mummers to approach this sick man? Never do they support those in sorrow by any healing remedies, but rather do ever foster the sorrow by poisonous sweets. These are they who stifle the fruit-bearing harvest of reason with the barren briars of the passions: they free not the minds of men from disease, but accustom them thereto."“