Archytas de Tarente citations

Archytas de Tarente est un philosophe pythagoricien, mathématicien, astronome, homme politique, stratège et général grec, fils de Mnésagore ou Histiée. Durant sept années consécutives, il gouverna la cité de Tarente qui connut alors une époque de prospérité, incarnant ainsi le philosophe roi éclairé tel que l'envisageaient les philosophes. Wikipedia

✵ 428 av. J.-C. – 347 av. J.-C.

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Archytas de Tarente: Citations en anglais

“That tho' a Man were admitted into Heaven to view the wonderful Fabrick of the World, and the Beauty of the stars, yet what would otherwise be Rapture and Extasie, would be but melancholy Amazement if he had not a Friend to communicate it to.”

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Attributed to Archytus by Christiaan Huygens, The Celestial Worlds Discover'd (1722) Book 1, pt.4 and quoted by Arthur Beer, Vistas in Astronomy (1955) Vol.1 https://ia600304.us.archive.org/35/items/VistasInAstronomy-Volume1/Beer-VistasInAstronomyVolume1.pdf

“The unwritten laws of the gods were promulgated against depraved manners, inflicting a severe destiny and penalty on the disobedient; and these unwritten laws are the fathers and leaders of those that are written, and of the dogmas established by men.”

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Thomas Taylor (Tr.) Political fragments of Archytas, Charondas, Zaleucus, and other Ancient Pythagoreans, preserved by Stobæus; and also, Ethical Fragments of Pierocles http://books.google.com/books?id=Kx4PAQAAMAAJ (1822)