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On the Virtues: Courage, Humanity, and Repentance

Philo of Alexandria · Parte on-humanity.161

[161] [cap.30] [Yonge. 22] Having, then, by such precepts as these, civilised and made gentle the minds of those who live under the constitution of his laws, he has separated them from haughtiness and arrogance, those most grievous and burdensome of evils, which men in general cling to as the greatest of goods, and especially when riches, or glory, or authority supply them with unlimited abundance;