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Of Hyperides. Men abstain from wrongdoings for two reasons, either through fear, or through shame.

Socrat. What you are angered by suffering from others, do not do to others. Of Epictetus. Just as a straight scale is neither corrected by a true scale, nor under

is it judged by a false one; so also the just judge is neither corrected by the just, nor is he judged by the unjust.

Do not judge in another's court before you yourself have been judged by justice.

Of Pythagoras. The wrongdoer suffers greater evils through his conscience, being tormented, than he who is by the

body and scourged with blows. Of Zeno. Zeno the Stoic philosopher, being asked by one of his acquaintances, how we might

do none of the unjust things, said: If you always suppose me to be present with you.

The same, being asked if a man doing wrong can escape God's notice, "But not even in his thoughts," he said.

Socrates. Having been condemned by the Athenians to be thrown from a cliff, his wife Xanthippe weeping and saying: "O Socrates, how unjustly you are dying!" he said: "Would you then have wished me to die justly?"

Of Menander. Suspect nothing evil from a good man. A just character does not know how to do wrong. Socrates to Xenophon. Does not the deed seem to you a more valuable proof than the word?

"Much more, by Zeus," he said. For many say just things, but do unjust ones; but of those who practice justice, not even one could be unjust.

DISCOURSE 66.

Concerning friends and brotherly love. 1 Cor. 13. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not

love, I have become (756) a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And after a little: If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body that I shall be burned, but have not love, I am nothing.

Prov. 27. The wounds of a friend are more trustworthy than the voluntary kisses of an enemy.

Prov. 29. He who prepares a net before the face of his friend, will cast it about his own feet.

Prov. 18. A man desiring to be separated from friends makes excuses.

Prov. 15. Better is a dish of vegetables with friendship and grace, than a serving of calves with enmity.

Sirach 22. One who throws a stone at birds, scares them away; and one who reproaches a friend, dissolves a friendship.

Sirach 6. A faithful friend is a strong shelter; and he who has found one, has found a treasure.

Sirach 9. Do not forsake an old friend; for the new one is not equal to him.

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Ὑπερίδου. ∆ιά δύο προφάσεις τῶν ἀδικημάτων ἄνθρωποι ἀπέχονται, ἤ διά φόβον, ἤ διά αἰσχύνην.

Σωκράτ. Ἅ πάσχοντες παρ᾿ ἑτέροις ὀργίζεσθε, ταῦτα τοῖς ἄλλοις μή ποιεῖτε. Ἐπικτήτου. Ὥσπερ εὐθύς ζυγός, οὔτε πρός ἀληθοῦς εὐθύνεται ζυγοῦ, οὔθ᾿ ὑπό

ψευδοῦς κρίνεται· οὕτω καί ὁ δίκαιος κριτής, οὔθ᾿ ὑπό δικαίων εὐθύνεται, οὔτε παρ᾿ ἀδίκοις δικάζεται.

Μή πρότερον ἑτέρῳ δικαστηρίῳ δικάσῃς, πρίν αὐτός παρά τῇ δίκῃ κριθῇς. Πυθαγόρου. Κακά μείζω πάσχει διά τοῦ συνειδότος ὁ ἀδικῶν, βασανιζόμενος, ἤ ὁ τῷ

σώματι καί ταῖς πληγαῖς μαστιγούμενος. Ζήνωνος. Ζήνων ὁ Στοϊκός φιλόσοφος, ἐρωτηθείς ὑπό τινος τῶν γνωρίμων, πῶς ἄν

μηδέν τῶν ἀδίκων πράττο[ι]μεν, εἶπεν· Ἐάν διά παντός ὑπολαμβάνητέ με συμπαρεῖναι ὑμῖν.

Ὁ αὐτός ἐρωτηθείς, εἰ δύναται λανθάνειν Θεόν ἄνθρωπος ἀδικῶν, Ἀλλ᾿ οὐδέ διανοούμενος , ἔφη.

Σωκράτης. Καταδικασθείς ὑπό Ἀθηναίων κατακρημνισθῆναι, τῆς γυναικός Ξανθίππης κλαιούσης, καί λεγούσης· Ὦ Σώκρατες, ὡς ἀδίκως ἀποθνήσκεις! ἔφη· Σύ οὖν ἐβούλου με δικαίως ἀποθανεῖν;

Μενάνδρου. Χρηστοῦ πρός ἀνδρός μηδέν ὑπονόει κακόν. ∆ίκαιος ἀδικεῖν οὐκ ἐπίσταται τρόπος. Ξενοφῶντι Σωκράτης. Ἦ οὐ δοκεῖ σοι ἀξιοτεκμαρτότερον τοῦ λόγου τό ἔργον εἶναι;

Πολύ γε, νή ∆ία, ἔφη. ∆ίκαια μέν λέγοντες πολλοί, ἄδικα ποιοῦσι· δίκαια δέ πραττόντων, οὐδ᾿ ἄν εἷς ἄδικος εἴη.

ΛΟΓΟΣ Στ´ .

Περί φίλων καί φιλαδελφίας. Α´ Κορ. ιγ´. Ἐάν ταῖς γλῶσσαις τῶν ἀνθρώπων λαλῶ καί τῶν ἀγγέλων, ἀγάπην δέ

μή ἔχω, γέγονα (756) χαλκός ἠχῶν, ἤ κύμβαλον ἀλαλάζον. Καί μετ᾿ ὀλίγον· Ἐάν ψωμίσω πάντα τά ὑπάρχοντά μοι, καί παραδῷ τό σῶμα μου ἵνα καυθήσομαι, ἀγάπην δέ μή ἔχω, οὐδέν εἰμι.

Παροιμ. κζ´. Ἀξιοπιστότερα τραύματα φίλου, ἤ ἑκούσια, φιλήματα τοῦ ἐχθροῦ.

Παροιμ. κθ´. Ὅς παρασκευάζεται ἐπί πρόσωπον τοῦ ἑαυτοῦ φίλου δίκτυον, περιβαλεῖ αὐτό τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ ποσίν.

Παροιμ. ιη΄.Προφασίζεται ἀνήρ βουλόμενος χωρισθῆναι ἀπό φίλων.

Παροιμ. ιε´. Κρεῖσσον ξενισμός λαχάνων πρός φιλίαν καί χάριν, ἤ παράθεσις μόσχων μετά ἔχθρας.

Σιράχ κβ´. Βάλλων λίθον τις ἐπί πετεινά, ἐπισοβεῖ αὐτά· καί ὀνειδίζων φίλον, διαλύσει φιλίαν.

Σιράχ στ´. Φίλος πιστός σκέπη κραταιά· ὁ δέ εὑρών αὐτόν, εὗρε θησαυρόν.

Σιράχ θ´. Μή ἐγκαταλίπῃς φίλον ἀρχαῖον· ὁ γάρ πρόσφατος οὐκ ἔστιν ἐπίσης αὐτῷ.