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They in their desire for health commit themselves to physicians, but these people show no willingness to cast off the soul-sickness of their untraine… - Philo of Alexandria
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About Philo of Alexandria
Philo (20 BCE – 50 CE), known also as Philo of Alexandria and as Philo Judeaus, was a Hellenized Jewish philosopher born in Alexandria, Egypt. The few biographical details concerning him are found in his own works, especially in Legatio ad Gaium, ("embassy to Gaius") and in Flavius Josephus (Antiquities xviii.8, § 1; comp. ib. xix.5, § 1; xx.5, § 2).
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Native Name:
Φίλων τοῦ Ἀλεξανδρείας
Alternative Names:
Philo Judeaus
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Philo Alexandrinus
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Philo Judæus
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Philo
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Philo the Jew
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Philio of Alexandria
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Philio Judæus
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Philio Alexandrinus
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And yet these things for which we should strive eagerly, things so closely akin to ourselves, so truly our own, we treat with great slackness and constant indifference and thus destroy the germs of excellence, while those things in which deficiency were a merit we desire with an insatiable yearning.
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