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Book I Chapter 41 · I.41.1.11–I.41.1.13
Ancient Greek
p. 8241.11
Ὁ νοῦς ἐν τῷ θεῷ, ὁ λογισμὸς ἐν τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ.
Ὁ λόγος ἐν τῷ νοΐ, ὁ νοῦς ἀπαθής.
Οὐδὲν ἐν σώματι ἀληθές, ἐν ἀσωμάτῳ τὸ πᾶν ἀψευδές.
Πᾶν τὸ γενόμενον μεταβλητόν, οὐ πᾶν τὸ γενόμενον φθαρτόν.
1.12
Οὐδὲν ἀγαθὸν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, οὐδὲν κακὸν ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ.
Ὁ θεὸς ἀγαθός, ὁ ἄνθρωπος κακός.
Τὸ ἀγαθὸν ἑκούσιον, τὸ κακὸν ἀκούσιον.
Οἱ θεοὶ τὰ ἀγαθὰ αἱροῦνται ὡς ἀγαθὰ …
1.13
Ἡ εὐνομία μετὰ θεοῦ ὁμόνοια· ἡ εὐνομία ὁ νόμος.
Θεῖος χρόνος, νόμος ἀνθρώπινος.
Κακία κόσμου τροφή, χρόνος ἀνθρώπου φθορά.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 41
p. 8251.11 · Mind and truth
Intellect is in God; reasoning is in the human being.
Reason is in intellect; intellect is unaffected.
Nothing in a body is true; in what is incorporeal, everything is free from falsehood.
Everything that has come into being can change; not everything that has come into being can perish.1068
1.12 · Goodness and choice
Nothing on earth is good; nothing in heaven is evil.
God is good; the human being is evil.
The good is voluntary; evil is involuntary.
The gods choose good things as good …1069
1.13 · Law, time, and nourishment
Good order is concord with God; good order is law.
Time is divine; law is human.
Evil is the cosmos’s nourishment; time is the human being’s destruction.1070
Socrates
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