Julian Apostata cytaty strona 4

„Galilejczyku, zwyciężyłeś!”

Źródło: Listy, 107

„Może zdziwi się ktoś, jakim to sposobem jeszcze się nie widząc już jesteśmy przyjaciółmi. Lecz jakim to sposobem są naszymi przyjaciółmi ci, co żyli przed tysiącem lat, a nawet przed dwoma tysiącami lat? Tym mianowicie, że byli ludźmi pod każdym względem prawymi, o pięknych i dobrych charakterach. I my pragniemy stać się takimi, jeśli nawet – w moim przypadku przynajmniej – daleko do tego; lecz już sama chęć poniekąd zamieszcza nas w jednej z tamtymi kategorii.”

Słowa przypisane Julianowi Apostacie

„I król to dobry, i wojownik dzielny.”

Źródło: Listy, 78

„Wstydzę się, że nie mogę zapewnić wszystkim pełnego poczucia bezpieczeństwa od wszelkiej krzywdy.”

epitafium na grobowcu Juliana.
O Julianie Apostacie
Źródło: Zosimus, Nowa historia, III 34

„Temu, który wyzwolił świat rzymski, odbudował świątynie, ożywił kurie miejskie i państwo, wyniszczył barbarzyńców, panu naszemu Julianowi, zawsze Augustowi, najświetniejszemu zwycięzcy Alamanów, Franków, Sarmatów, najwyższemu kapłanowi, ojcu ojczyzny.”

Źródło: Mizopogon, 353 d

„Opis: ostatnie słowa cesarza według pisarzy chrześcijańskich.”

Romani orbis liberatori, templorum restauratori, curiarum et rei publicae recreatori, barbarorum extinctori, domino nostro Juliano perpetuo Augusto, Alamannico maximo, Francico maximo, Sarmatico maximo, pontyfici maximo, patri patriae. (łac.)
napis na kolumnie podtrzymującej posąg Juliana.
O Julianie Apostacie
Źródło: L’Année épigraphique, 1969/70, 631

“The Phoenicians who from their sagacity and learning possess great insight into things divine, hold the doctrine that this universally diffused radiance is a part of the "Soul of the Stars." This opinion is consistent with sound reason: if we consider the light that is without body, we shall perceive that of such light the source cannot be a body, but rather the simple action of a mind, which spreads itself by means of illumination as far as its proper seat; to which the middle region of the heavens is contiguous, from which place it shines forth with all its vigour and fills the heavenly orbs, illuminating at the same time the whole universe with its divine and pure radiance.”

Galilaee, vicisti! (łac.)
Słowa przypisane Julianowi Apostacie

Julian Apostata: Cytaty po angielsku

“But let us now dismiss these poetical fictions; because with what is divine they have mingled much of human alloy; and let us now consider what the deity has declared concerning himself and the other gods.
The region surrounding the Earth has its existence in virtue of birth. From whom then does it receive its eternity and imperishability, if not from him who holds all things together within defined limits, for it is impossible that the nature of bodies (material) should be without a limit, inasmuch as they cannot dispense with a Final Cause, nor exist through themselves.”

Upon the Sovereign Sun (362)

“I am not indeed ignorant that certain over-wise people will call these legends "old wives' fables," and not worth listening to; but I think, for my part, that in such matters it is better to believe the testimony of nations than of those witty individuals, whose little soul is acute indeed, but has a clear insight into no one thing.”

Upon the Sovereign Sun (362)

“As a general rule, all that has been hitherto advanced respecting the nature of this deity, must be understood to refer to his properties: for the nature of the god is not one thing, and his influence another: and truly, besides these two, his energy a third thing: seeing that all things which he wills, these he is, he can, and he works. For neither doth he will that which he is not; nor is he without strength to do that which he wills; nor doth he will that which he cannot effect.”

Upon The Mother Of The Gods (c. 362-363)

“Let us not admit discourses by Epicureans or Pyrrhonists – though indeed the gods have already in their wisdom destroyed their works, so that most of their books are no longer available. Nevertheless, there is no reason why I should not, by way of example, mention these works too, to show what sort of discourses priests must especially avoid; and if such discourses, then much more must they avoid such thoughts.”

Now this is very different in the case of men, for theirs is a double nature mixed up in one, that of soul and body; the former divine, the latter full of darkness and obscurity: hence naturally arise warfare and discord between the two.
Upon the Sovereign Sun (362)

Fragmentum Epistulae 288a-305d
General sources

“The Phoenicians who from their sagacity and learning possess great insight into things divine, hold the doctrine that this universally diffused radiance is a part of the "Soul of the Stars."”

From whom then does it receive its eternity and imperishability, if not from him who holds all things together within defined limits, for it is impossible that the nature of bodies (material) should be without a limit, inasmuch as they cannot dispense with a Final Cause, nor exist through themselves.
Upon the Sovereign Sun (362)