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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.57.12–I.49.57.13
Ancient Greek
p. 142057.12
Ὅτι τούτους εἰκός ἐστιν εἰς τὸ τοιοῦτον πάλιν ἀφικνεῖσθαι πολιτικὸν καὶ ἥμερον γένος, ἤ που μελιττῶν ἢ σφηκῶν ἢ μυρμήχων, ἢ καὶ εἰς ταὐτόν γε πάλιν τὸ ἀνθρώπινον γένος, καὶ γίγνεσθαι ἐξ αὐτῶν ἄνδρας μετρίους.
Εἰκός.
57.13
Εἰς δέ γε θεῶν γένος μὴ φιλοσοφήσαντι καὶ παντελῶς καθαρῷ ἀπιόντι οὐ θέμις ἀφικνεῖσθαι ἄλλῳ ἢ τῷ φιλομαθεῖ.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 142157.12 · Social creatures and decent human lives
“Because they are likely to return to a social and gentle kind of this sort, perhaps bees, wasps, or ants, or even back to the very same human kind, and from them decent men come to be.”
“Likely.”1703
57.13 · The lover of learning and the gods
“But one may not enter the race of the gods without having practiced philosophy and departing wholly pure. This is permitted to no one other than the lover of learning.”1704
Socrates
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