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On the Virtues: Courage, Humanity, and Repentance

Philo of Alexandria · Parte on-humanity.150

[150] [cap.29] [Yonge. 21] And, going beyond all other lawgivers in humanity, he does not allow his people even to ravage the country of their enemies, but he commands them to abstain from cutting down the trees, thinking it unjust that the anger which is excited against men should wreak itself on things which are innocent of all evil.