Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, Robert Gregg Bury (Translator), 3.31.274

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[274] He, then, who is termed by them a temperate sage is called temperate either in virtue of his never feeling the impulse towards good or repulsion from evil,¹ or in virtue of his possessing slight impulses in either direction and overcoming them by reason.

Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes. Sextus Empiricus. Robert Gregg Bury (Translator). London. 1933.

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism (English) (Sextus Empiricus, Vol. 1. Bury, Robert Gregg, translator. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933.)

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Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes First1KGreek (Sextus Empiricus. Sexti Empiricii Opera, Volume 1. Mutschmann, Hermann, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1912.) — 3.31.274 focus

[274] ὁ οὖν λεγόμενος κατ’ αὐτοὺς ἐγκρατὴς σοφὸς
ἤτοι κατὰ τοῦτο λέγεται ἐγκρατής, καθόσον ἐν οὐδεμιᾷ γίνεται ὁρμῇ τῇ πρὸς τὸ κακὸν καὶ ἀφορμῇ τῇ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ, ἢ καθόσον εἶχε μὲν φαύλας ὁρμὰς καὶ ἀφορμάς, περιεκράτει δὲ αὐτῶν τῷ γόγῳ.

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism

1. Cf. § 177 for the Stoic use of ‟inclination” and ‟aversion” as ethical terms. The Stoic ideal being complete absence of passion and emotion (‟apathy”), the less ‟temperance” a man exercised the better he was. ‟The Sage,” being a purely rational self, needs no ‟self-mastery.” Cf. Introd. p. xxviii.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.31.274

Robert Gregg Bury (Translator)

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