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On the Virtues: Courage, Humanity, and Repentance

Philo of Alexandria · Parte on-humanity.172

[172] Why so, because in the first place, haughty arrogance is a vice of the soul; but the soul is invisible to any one but God. And anyone who punishes, if he does so blindly, is blameable, as ignorance is his accuser: but if he does so with his eyes open, he is to be praised as doing everything with knowledge; and secondly, because every haughty arrogant man is full of vain groundless pride, looks upon himself as neither man nor demigod, but rather as an actual deity, as Pindar says, [62] [63] [64] thinking himself worthy to overstep all the boundaries of human nature.