Philo Judaeus De Sobrietate 38

ed. Paul Wendland

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[38] 9 ὁ αὐτὸς τοίνυν λόγος ἐφαρμόττει καὶ τοῖς κατ’ ἀφροσύνην καὶ συνόλως τοῖς κατ’ ἀρετήν τε καὶ κακίαν· οἱ φρόνιμοί τε καὶ σώφρονες καὶ
ἀνδρεῖοι καὶ δίκαιοι τὰς ψυχὰς μυρίοι γεγόνασι φύσεως μὲν εὐμοιρίᾳ, νομίμοις δ’ ὑφηγήσεσι, πόνοις δ’ ἀηττήτοις καὶ ἀοκνοτάτοις χρησάμενοι, τὸ δὲ κάλλος τῶν ἐν ταῖς διανοίαις ἀγαλμάτων οὐκ ἴσχυσαν ἐπιδείξασθαι διὰ πενίαν ἢ ἀδοξίαν ἢ νόσον σώματος ἢ τὰς ἄλλας κῆρας ὅσαι τὸν ἀνθρώπινον περιπολοῦσι βίον.

De Sobrietate. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Sobrietate (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 2. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1897.)

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On Sobriety First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 38 focus

Therefore, the same assertion applies to those who live according to folly, and also to all those who live in accordance with virtue or vice. Those who are prudent, and temperate, and manly, and just men in their dispositions are infinite in number, having a happy portion in nature, and institutions in accordance with the law, and exerting themselves in invincible and unhesitating labours; but the beauty which exists in the ideas in their minds they are not able to display by reason of their poverty, or of their want of rank, or of some disease of the body, or of some one of the other disasters which surround human life;

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