Cassiodorus Quotes on Virtue
Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator was a Roman senator, scholar, and statesman who served the Ostrogothic kings of Italy under Theodoric and his successors before retiring in the 540s to found the monastery of Vivarium on his family estates in Calabria. This page collects quotes attributed to Cassiodorus on the topic of virtue, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Cassiodorus:
“Every age, however dark, has need of letters.”
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Attributed to Cassiodorus:
“He who copies a sacred book labours with hands and tongue alike.”
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Attributed to Cassiodorus:
“What we owe to faithful copyists, no praise can match.”
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“For what is more glorious than music, which modulates the heavenly system with its sonorous sweetness, and binds together with its virtue the concord of nature which is scattered everywhere?”
Quid enim illa praestantius, quae caeli machinam sonora dulcedine modulatur et naturae convenientiam ubique dispersam virtutis suae gratia comprehendit?