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About the Planting of Noah

Philo of Alexandria · Parte 98

[98] But when the mind, having entered upon the path of [40] wisdom, marches along with its doctrines, and begins to keep pace with them all, it then cultivates the useful trees, which are capable of bearing eatable fruit, instead of caring for those useless kinds; it cultivates a mastery over, instead of the indulgence of the passions, and knowledge instead of ignorance, and good instead of evil.