Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 10

[10] "Come, therefore, let me send thee to them," ¹ that is to say, listen to my bidding and come over, receiving in your mind a voluntary impulse to learn better things. But up to the present time you are full of self-complacency, as one who has received true instruction; for although you have not as yet plainly asserted this, you still say that you are ready to be taught again, when you say, "Behold, here am I," by which expression you appear to me to exhibit your own rashness and easiness to be persuaded more than your readiness to learn; and a proof of what I say is this, "And a little afterwards the true man will find you wandering in the way," ² while you would not have been led astray, if you had come to the practise of virtue with a sound intention. ^{3 4 5}