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Боэций
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Другие имена: Boëthius,Anicius Boethius,Аниций Манлий Торкват Северин Боэций,Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boethius
Ани́ций Ма́нлий Торква́т Севери́н Боэ́ций , в исторических документах Ани́ций Ма́нлий Севери́н — римский государственный деятель, философ-неоплатоник, теоретик музыки, христианский теолог.
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„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?"“
— Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Prose IV, line 30; translation by W.V. Cooper
„O happy race of mortals,
if your hearts are ruled
as is the universe, by Love!“
— Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
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.
„By first recognizing false goods, you begin to escape the burden of their influence; then afterwards true goods may gain possession of your spirit.“
— Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Poem I, lines 11-13; translation by Richard H. Green
„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
„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."“
— Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Prose I, lines 7-9; translation by W.V. Cooper
