Philo Judaeus, De Virtutibus, ed. Leopold Cohn, 166

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[166] ἐὰν δέ, φησίν, εὐρωστῇ σοι τὰ πράγματα, λαβὼν καὶ κτησάμενος ἰσχύν, ἣν ἴσως οὐ προσεδόκησας,
ποίει δύναμιν. τί δὲ τοῦτ’ ἐστίν, ἀκριβωτέον τοῖς μὴ πάνυ συνορῶσι τὸ δηλούμενον. πολλοὶ τὰ ἐναντία ὧν εὖ πεπόνθασι δρᾶν ἐπιχειροῦσιν· ἢ γὰρ πλουτήσαντες πενίαν ἄλλοις κατασκευάζουσιν ἢ δόξης καὶ τιμῆς ἐπὶ μέγα μετασχόντες ἀδοξίας καὶ ἀτιμίας ἑτέροις αἴτιοι γίνονται.

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.) — 166 focus

[166] Are your affairs prosperous and flourishing? then, receiving and increasing that strength of body which perhaps you did not expect, get power; and what is meant by this expression must be accurately investigated by those who do not very clearly see what is implied in it. Many persons endeavour to bring upon others, what is exactly contrary to the benefits which they have themselves received; for either, having themselves become rich, they prepare poverty for others, or having arrived at a high degree of honour and reputation, they become to others the causes of dishonour and infamy:

Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 166

ed. Leopold Cohn

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