• Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?

  Source: De Consolatione Philosophia Book 4, Prose 2, 524. Translated from Latin by Ric

  Boethius
  Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher 480-525
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. concupiscences
2. unnatural
3. however
4. achieve
5. variety
6. seeking

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Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree? by : Boethius

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