Philo Judaeus, De Virtutibus, ed. Leopold Cohn, 10

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[10] οὕτως μὲν πενίᾳ πλοῦτον ἀντιτάττουσιν· ἀδοξίᾳ δὲ εὔκλειαν· ὁ γὰρ ἔπαινος ὁρμητήριον ἔχων καλοκἀγαθίαν καὶ ὥσπερ
ἀπὸ ἀενάου πηγῆς ἐκεῖθεν ῥέων ἀνεξετάστων ἀνθρώπων οὐκ ἐνομιλεῖ πλήθεσι τὰς τῆς ψυχῆς ἀνωμαλίας ἀβεβαίοις φωναῖς ἀπογυμνοῦν εἰωθότων, ἃς ἔστιν ὅτε λημμάτων αἰσχρῶν ἐπευωνίζοντες οὐκ ἐρυθριῶσιν κατὰ τῶν ἀριστίνδην ἐπιλεγομένων. ὀλίγος δὲ τούτων ἀριθμός ἐστιν· ἀρετὴ γὰρ οὐ πολύχουν ἐν θνητῷ γένει.

De Virtutibus. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Virtutibus (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 5. Cohn, Leonard, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1906.)

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On Three Virtues, that is to say, on Courage, Humanity, and Repentance First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 3. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855.) — 10 focus

[10] and so they array wealth against poverty, and glory against a want of reputation; for praise, having excellence and virtue as a starting point, and flowing forth from it as from an everlasting fountain, does not mix with the multitude of inconsiderate men, who are in the habit of laying bare the inconsistency of the soul, with unstable declarations, which sometimes they are not ashamed to sell cheaply in their desire of base gains, uttering them in reproach of men selected for their excellence. But the number of such men is small, for virtue is not a thing frequently met with in the race of men:

Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 10

ed. Leopold Cohn

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