Letter 844: God's judgment is certain, and no amount of cleverness or delay can avoid it.
The temperate, the condescending, the gentle, the generous -- he who rules and judges not by favor but by judgment, and the other qualities...
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Latin / Greek Original
Α σώφρον, τὸ συγκαταβατικὸν, τὸ ἦπιον, τὸ μεταδοτι-
κὸν, τὸ μὴ χάριτι, ἀλλὰ κρίσει κρατεῖν καὶ ψηφίζε
σθαι, καὶ τὰ ἄλλα τὰ τούτων ἀδελφά. ᾿Ανελευθέρου δε,
τὸ τοῖς ἐναντίοις πάθεσι κεχειρῶσθαι, καὶ πᾶσαν
ἀγαθὴν ἔννοιαν ἐξ ἑαυτῆς ἐξωστρακίσθαι.
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