Lucius Apuleius citáty
Lucius Apuleius
Datum narození: 125
Datum úmrtí: 170
Další jména: Lucius A. Apuleius, Луций Апулей
Lucius Apuleius Platonicus , známý obvykle jen jako Apuleius, byl latinsky hovořícím a píšícím řečníkem a platónským filosofem.
Citáty Lucius Apuleius
„Odvykání činnosti plodí lenost, lenost pak ochablost.“
Originál: (la) Desuetudo Omnibus Pigritiam, Pigritia Veternum Parit
„Ne každému dřevu dáno býti fládrem.“
[(la) Ne ex quovis ligno fit Mercurius.]
Zdroj: [Novák, Jan Václav, Vorovka, Karel, Kniha moudrosti, sborník aforismů a sentencí peadagogických, Bursík a Kohout, 1892, 195, česky]
„Co nikdo neví, jako by se nedělo.“
Originál: (la) Quod Nemo Novit, Paene Non Fit
Varianta: Co nikdo neví, to jako by se nedělo.
„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, kniha The Golden Ass
Bk. 11, ch. 5; p. 226.
Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass)
Originál: (la) En adsum tuis commota, Luci, precibus, rerum naturae parens, elementorum omnium domina, saeculorum progenies initialis, summa numinum, regina manium, prima caelitum, deorum dearumque facies uniformis, quae caeli luminosa culmina, maris salubria flamina, inferum deplorata silentia nutibus meis dispenso: cuius numen unicum multiformi specie, ritu vario, nomine multiiugo totus veneratus orbis.
„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, kniha Apologia
Originál: (la) Sanus est, qui scit quid sit insania, quippe insania scire se non potest, non magis quam caecitas se videre.
„It is with life just as with swimming; that man is the most expert who is the most disengaged from all encumbrances.“
— Apuleius, kniha Apologia
Apologia; seu, Pro Se de Magia (Apologia; or, A Discourse on Magic), ch. 21; p. 268.
Originál: (la) Ad vivendum velut ad natandum is melior qui onere liberior.
