Philo Judaeus, Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat, ed. Leopold Cohn, 165

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[165] ἴστωσαν δὴ καὶ ὁ Κάιν καὶ εἴ τις ἕτερος πανοῦργος, ὅτι οὐχ ὑπὸ παντὸς τοῦ ἐντυγχάνοντος
ἀναιρεθήσεται, ἀλλὰ ῥᾳδιουργοὶ μὲν ἀδελφὰς καὶ συγγενεῖς κακίας ἐζηλωκότες φρουροὶ καὶ φύλακες αὐτοῦ γενήσονται, φρόνησιν δ’ ὅσοι καὶ ἄλλην ἀρετὴν ἐξεπόνησαν ὡς ἄσπονδον ἐχθρόν, ἢν δύνωνται, καθελοῦσι· πάντα γάρ, ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν, καὶ σώματα καὶ p. 223 M. πράγματα πρὸς μὲν οἰκείων καὶ φίλων σῴζεται, πρὸς ἀλλοτρίων δὲ καὶ δυσμενῶν
διαφθείρεται.

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.) — 165 focus

[165] And let them know that Cain, and all other wicked men will not be slain by any one who meets them, but that evil doers imitating their kindred and connected wickednesses, will become guardians and preservers of them; but all those who have cultivated prudence or any other virtue, will destroy them if they can, as irreconcileable enemies. For, in short, all bodies and all things are preserved by the things which are akin to and attached to them, but are destroyed by those that are alien and hostile to them.

Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 165

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