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On the Virtues: Courage, Humanity, and Repentance

Philo of Alexandria · Parte on-humanity.110

[110] Moreover, if, after having taken prisoners in a sally, you should entertain a desire for a beautiful woman amongst them, [32] do not satiate your passion, treating her as a captive, but act with gentleness, and pity her change of fortune, and alleviate her calamity, regulating everything for the best;