Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.25.240

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[240] εἰ μέντοι καὶ μίαν εἶναι πάντες λέγοιεν καθ’ ὑπόθεσιν τὴν περὶ τὸν
βίον τέχνην, οἷον τὴν ἀοίδιμον φρόνησιν, ἥτις ὀνειροπολεἱται μὲν παρὰ Στωικοῖς, μᾶλλον δὲ πληκτικωτέρα τῶν ἄλλων εἶναι δοκεῖ, καὶ οὕτως οὐδὲν ἧττον ἀτοπίαι παρακολουθήσουσιν. ἐπεὶ γὰρ φρόνησίς ἐστιν ἀρετή, τὴν δὲ ἀρετὴν μόνος εἶχεν ὁ σοφός, οἱ Στωικοὶ μὴ ὄντες σοφοὶ οὐχ

Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes. Sextus Empiricus. ed. Hermann Mutschmann. Germany. 2014.

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

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism First1KGreek (Sextus Empiricus, Vol. 1. Bury, Robert Gregg, translator. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933.) — 3.25.240 focus

[240] Yet, even if they were all to agree in assuming that the art of living is one —such as, for example, the celebrated ‟prudence” whereof the Stoics dream, and which seems to be more convincing than all the rest,—even so equally absurd results will follow. For since ‟prudence” is a virtue, and the Sage alone was in possession of virtue, the Stoics, not being sages,¹ will not be in possession of the art of living.

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