Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius quotes
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius was a Roman philosopher, theologian, and statesman, renowned for his work "The Consolation of Philosophy." His writings served as a vital bridge between the classical world and the Middle Ages, influencing both Christian and secular thought. He is remembered as one of the last great thinkers to unite the traditions of ancient philosophy with emerging medieval culture. Here are 46 of his quotes:
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
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
