Letter 875: Virtue must be practiced with all one's strength — not merely admired from a distance.
To Timotheos the Reader [anagnostes, a minor ecclesiastical office]
That your gentleness is not to be despised, and that your manliness is not savage (for love of humankind chastens cruelty), we all know. But that you must also take on the other virtues as well, so that you may shine forth in all things, this learn from me.
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Latin / Greek Original
Ὅτι μὲν τὸ πρᾶον οὐκ εὐκαταφρόνητον ἔχεις, οὐδὲ τὸ ἀνδρεῖον ἀνήμερον (ἡ γὰρ φιλανθρωπία κολάζει τὴν ὠμότητα) ἅπαντες ἴσμεν. Ὅτι δὲ χρὴ σε καὶ τὰς ἄλλας ἀρετὰς ἀναδήσασθαι, ἵνα ἐν πᾶσι διαλάμπῃς, τοῦτο παρ’ ἐμοῦ μάνθανε.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern isidore pelusium workflow v1.
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