As parents in private life teach wisdom to their children, … - Philo of Alexandria

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As parents in private life teach wisdom to their children, so do [poets] in public life to their cities.

Philo of Alexandria

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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 • Philo Alexandrinus • Philo Judæus • Philo • Philo the Jew • Philio of Alexandria • Philio Judæus • Philio Alexandrinus

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The good man … has learnt to set at naught the injunctions laid upon him by those most lawless rulers of the soul, inspired as he is by his ardent yearning for the freedom whose peculiar heritage it is that it obeys no orders and works no will but its own.

Wisdom … never closes her school of thought but always opens her doors to those who thirst for the sweet water of discourse, and pouring on them an unstinted stream of undiluted doctrine, persuades them to be drunken with the drunkenness which is soberness itself.

God and no mortal is my Sovereign.

As parents in private life teach wisdom to their children, so do [poets] in public life to their cities. - Philo of Alexandria

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