Philo Judaeus, Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat, ed. Leopold Cohn, 98

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[98] κατάρατον δέ φησι τὸν νοῦν οὐκ ἀπ’ ἄλλου τινὸς ἢ ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς ἔσεσθαι· τῶν γὰρ χαλεπωτάτων αὐτοῦ
συμφορῶν τὸ περὶ ἕκαστον ἡμῶν γεῶδες αἴτιον εὑρίσκεται· τὸ γοῦν σῶμα ἢ νόσῳ χρησάμενον τὰς ἀφ’ ἑαυτοῦ προσβαλὸν κῆρας ἄσης καὶ ἀδημονίας αὐτὸν ἐνέπλησεν ἢ πιανθὲν ἀμέτρως ἀπολαύσει ἡδονῶν ἀμβλυτέρας τὰς εἰς τὸ καταλαμβάνειν ἀκμὰς ἀπειργάσατο.

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.) — 98 focus

[98] But the scripture here pronounces that the mind shall be accursed, not from anything else, but from the earth; for of all the most grievous calamities which can happen to it, the earthly portion which exists in each of us is found to be the cause. At all events, when the body is afflicted with disease, it adds the miseries which are derived from itself, and so fills the mind with grief and despondency; or, on the other hand, if it has grown fat immoderately through enjoyment of pleasures, it makes all the faculties of the mind duller for the comprehension of nobler objects.

Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 98

ed. Leopold Cohn

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