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On the Virtues: Courage, Humanity, and Repentance

Philo of Alexandria · Parte on-humanity.4

[4] These men, then, are they who practise real courage, being studiers and practisers of wisdom; but those other men have only what does not deserve to be so called though it assumes the name, as they live in that incurable disease, ignorance, which one may very fitly and properly call audacity, just as people say that in coins base metal often bears the same impression as the real stamp and money.