Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 136

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[136] κυρίως γὰρ οὔτε ἐπὶ χρημάτων ἢ κτημάτων περιουσίᾳ οὔτε ἐπὶ δόξης λαμπρότητι οὐδὲ συνόλως ἐπί τινι τῶν ἐκτὸς ἀψύχων τε ὄντων καὶ ἀβεβαίων καὶ ἐξ ἑαυτῶν τὰς φθορὰς δεχομένων χαίρειν ἔνεστι, καὶ μὴν οὐδὲ ἐπὶ ῥώμῃ καὶ εὐτονίᾳ καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις
σώματος πλεονεκτήμασιν, ἃ καὶ τῶν φαυλοτάτων ἐστὶ κοινὰ καὶ τοῖς ἔχουσι πολλάκις ὄλεθρον ἀπαραίτητον ἤνεγκεν.

Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 1. Cohn, Leonard, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1896.)

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On the Principle that the Worse is accustomed to be always plotting against the Better First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 136 focus

[136] for to speak strictly, the feeling of joy does not belong to abundance of money, or of possessions, or to brilliancy of renown, nor, in short, to any one of those external circumstances which are lifeless and unstable, and which contain the seeds of their decay in themselves: nor yet does it belong to personal strength and vigour, and to the other advantages of the body, which are common to even the most worthless men, and which have often brought inevitable destruction on those who possessed them.

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