Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 194

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[194] τὸν αὐτὸν δὴ τρόπον οὔτε τοῖς ἀδίκοις δίκαιοι γονεῖς οὔτε ἀκολάστοις σώφρονες οὔτε συνόλως ἀγαθοὶ πονηροῖς ὄφελος· οὐδὲ γὰρ
οἱ νόμοι τοῖς παρανομοῦσιν, ὧν εἰσιν αὐτοὶ κολασταί· νόμοι δέ τινες ἄγραφοι καὶ οἱ βίοι τῶν ζηλωσάντων τὴν ἀρετήν.

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.) — 194 focus

[194] In the same manner, just parents are of no advantage to unjust men, nor temperate parents to intemperate children, nor, in short, are ancestors of any kind of excellence of any advantage to wicked descendants; for even the laws themselves are of no advantage to those who transgress them, as they are meant to punish them, and what is it that we ought to look upon as unwritten laws, except the lives of those persons who have imitated virtue?

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