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Grace flows away, and being betrayed, is captured. Of Bias. When someone was calling upon death over the loss of his children, Bias said, Why

do you call it good, man? Will it not come even if you do not call? (15E_294> This man, seeing a sword that had been thrown away, said, Who destroyed you,

or whom have you destroyed? The same man, when asked, Which of deaths is bad, said, The one from the laws

inflicted. Socrates. Socrates, having been condemned by the Athenians to be thrown from a cliff,

when his wife Xanthippe was weeping and saying, O Socrates, how unjustly you are dying, he said, So you would have wanted me to die justly?

The same man, when someone said to him, The Athenians have voted for your death, he said, But nature has done so before them.

905 The same man, when asked, What things are in Hades? said: Neither have I gone, nor have I met anyone from there.

Of Sextus. Take care of your family while they live; but when they have departed, their bodies must be mixed with the earth; for this is also holy; for the soul is not buried with the body. Vain, therefore, is the great labor concerning burials.

Anaxagoras. I think there are two teachings of death, the time before birth, and sleep.

From the maxims of Philistion. The Causians mourn those who are born, but bless those who have died.

Discourse 37. Concerning peace and war. (15E_296> Luke 10. Into whatever house you enter, first say: Peace

to this house; and if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him.

2 Corinthians 13. Be at peace, brothers, and the God of peace and of love will be with you.

Proverbs 17. Better is a morsel with pleasure in peace, than a house of many good things with strife.

Sirach 25. In three things I was beautified and I stood up beautiful before the Lord and men: the concord of brothers, and peace with a neighbor, and a wife and a husband behaving well with each other.

Of Basil. How great a good peace is, what need is there to say to men who are sons of peace? For nothing is so characteristic of a Christian as peacemaking; because for this also the Lord promised us the greatest reward.

Of the Theologian. A praiseworthy war is better than a peace that separates from God. Chrysostom. He who increases peace for all has cast out the war of the passions,

and has made the soul calmer than a harbor. Of Nyssa. For just as when health takes hold, sickness disappears, and of light

appearing, darkness does not remain; so also when peace has appeared, all the passions arising from the contrary are dissolved.

Demosthenes. Those who wage war rightly must not follow after events, but be themselves in front of the events.

(15E_298> A glorious war is more to be chosen than a shameful peace. Herodotus. For no one is so foolish (or) whoever war before peace

chooses.

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Χάρις διαῤῥεῖ, καί προδοῦσ᾿ ἁλίσκεται. Βίας. Βίας ἐπικαλουμένου τινός τόν θάνατον ἐπί τέκνων ἀπωλείᾳ, ἔφη, Τί

καλόν καλεῖς, ἄνθρωπε; οὐκ ἄν μή καλέσῃς ἤξει; (15Ε_294> Οὗτος θεασάμενος μάχαιραν ἐῤῥιμμένην, ἔφη, Τίς σε ἀπώλεσεν,

ἤ τίνα σύ. Ὁ αὐτός ἐρωτηθείς, Ποῖος τῶν θανάτων κακός, ἔφη, Ὁ ἀπό τῶν νόμων

ἐπαγόμενος. Σωκράτης. Σωκράτης καταδικασθείς ὑπό τῶν Ἀθηναίων κατακριμνησθῆναι,

τῆς γυναικός Ξανθίππης κλαιούσης καί λεγούσης, Ὦ Σώκρατες, ὡς ἀδίκως ἀποθνήσκεις, εἶπε, Σύ οὖν ἐβούλου με δικαίως ἀποθανεῖν;

Ὁ αὐτός εἰπόντος αὐτῷ τινός, Οἱ Ἀθηναῖοί σου θάνατον ἐψηφίσαντο, ἔφη, Πρό αὐτῶν δέ ἡ φύσις.

905 Ὁ αὐτός ἐρωτηθείς, Τίνα ἐστίν ἐν ᾅδου; εἶπεν· Οὔτε ἐγώ πεπόρευμαι, οὔτε τῶν ἐκεῖσέ τινι συντετύχηκα.

Σέξτου. Οἰκείων, ζώντων μέν, ποιοῦ ἐπιμέλειαν· ἀπογενομένων δέ, δεῖ τά σώματα τῇ γῇ συμμεμίχθαι· τοῦτο γάρ καί ὅσιον· οὐ γάρ συνθάπτεται ψυχή τῷ σώματι. Μάτην οὖν ὁ πολύς πόνος περί τάς ταφάς.

Ἀναξαγ. ∆ύο διδασκαλίας εἶναι οἶμαι θανάτου, τόν τε πρό τοῦ γενέσθαι χρόνον, καί τόν ὕπνον.

Ἐκ τῶν Φιλιστίωνος γνωμῶν. Καυσιανοί τούς μέν γεννωμένους θρηνοῦσι, τούς δέ τελευτήσαντας μακαρίζουσι.

ΛΟΓΟΣ ΛΖ´. Περί εἰρήνης καί πολέμου. (15Ε_296> Λουκ. ι´. Εἰς ἥν δ᾿ ἄν οἰκείαν εἰσέρχησθε, πρῶτον λέγετε· Εἰρήνη

τῷ οἴκῳ τούτῳ· καί ἐάν ᾗ ἐκεῖ υἱός εἰρήνης, ἐπαναπαύσεται ἐπ᾿ αὐτόν ἡ εἰρήνη ὑμῶν.

β´Κορ. ιγ´. Εἰρηνεύετε, ἀδελφοί, καί ὁ Θεός τῆς εἰρήνης καί τῆς ἀγάπης ἔσται μεθ᾿ ὑμῶν.

Παροιμ. ιζ´. Κρεῖσσον ψωμός μεθ᾿ ἡδονῆς ἐν εἰρήνῃ, ἤ οἶκος πολλῶν ἀγαθῶν μετά μάχης.

Σιρ. κε´. Ἐν τρισίν ὡραΐσθην καί ἀνέστην ὡραία ἐναντίον Κυρίου καί ἀνθρώπων· ὁμόνοια ἀδελφῶν, καί εἰρήνη τοῦ πλησίον, καί γυνή καί ἀνήρ ἑαυτοῖς συμπεριφερόμενοι.

Βασιλείου. Ὅσον ἐστί τό τῆς εἰρήνης ἀγαθόν, τί χρή λέγειν πρός ἄνδρας υἱούς τῆς εἰρήνης; Οὐδέν γάρ οὕτως ἴδιον Χριστιανοῦ, ὡς το εἰρηνοποιεῖν· διότι καί τόν ἐπ᾿ αὐτῷ μισθόν μέγιστον ἡμῖν ὁ Κύριος ἐπηγγείλατο.

Θεολόγου. Κρείσσων ἐπαινετός πόλεμος, εἰρήνης χωριζούσης Θεοῦ. Χρυσοστ. Ὁ ἐπαυξάμενος εἰρήνην ἅπασι, τόν πόλεμον τῶν παθῶν ἐξέβαλε,

καί λιμένος εὐδιωτέραν τήν ψυχήν κατεσκεύασεν. Νύσσης. Ὥσπερ γάρ ὑγείας ἐπιλαβούσης νόσος ἐξαφανίζεται, καί φωτός

φανέντος οὐχ ὑπολείπεται σκότος· οὕτως καί τῆς εἰρήνης ἐπιφανείσης, λύεται πάντα τά ἐκ τοῦ ἐναντίου συνιστάμενα πάθη.

∆ημοσθ. ∆εῖ τούς ὀρθῶς πολέμῳ χρωμένους, οὐκ ἀκολουθεῖν τοῖς πράγμασιν, ἀλλ᾿ αὐτούς ἔμπροσθεν εἶναι τῶν πραγμάτων.

(15Ε_298> Πόλεμος ἔνδοξος, εἰρήνης αἰσχρᾶς αἱρετώτερος. Ἡροδότ. Οὐδείς γάρ οὕτως ἀνόητός ἐστιν (ἤ) ὅστις πόλεμον πρό εἰρήνης

αἱρέεται.