Philo Judaeus, Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 21

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[21] εἰ δή τις εἴσω προελθὼν τῶν πραγμάτων ἐθελήσειε διακύψαι, γνώσεται σαφῶς, ὅτι οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἄλλῳ
συγγενὲς οὕτως, ὡς αὐτοπραγία ἐλευθερίᾳ, διότι πολλὰ μὲν τῷ φαύλῳ τὰ ἐμποδών, φιλαργυρία, φιλοδοξία, φιληδονία, τῷ δ’ ἀστείῳ τὸ παράπαν οὐδέν, ἐπανισταμένῳ καὶ ἐπιβεβηκότι καθάπερ ἐν ἄθλων ἀγῶνι τοῖς καταπαλαισθεῖσιν, ἔρωτι, φόβῳ, δειλίᾳ, λύπῃ, τοῖς ὁμοιοτρόποις.

Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter. Germany. 2014.

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Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 6. Cohn, Leonard; Reiter, Siegfried, editors. Berlin: Reimer, 1915.)

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To Prove that every Man who is virtuous is also free First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 3. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855.) — 21 focus

[21] If now any one advancing deeply into the matter should choose to investigate it closely, he will see ¹ clearly that there is no one thing so nearly related to another as independence of action. On which account there are a great many things which stand in the way of the liberty of a wicked man; covetousness of money, the desire of glory, the love of pleasure, and so on. But the virtuous man has absolutely no obstacle at all since he rises up against, and resists, and overthrows, and tramples on love, and fear, and cowardice, and pain, and all things of that kind, as if they were rivals defeated by him in the public games.

Philo Judaeus Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit 21

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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