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Friday, September 13, 2024

Stobaeus on Stoic Ethics 10


There is nothing between virtue and vice. 

For all human beings have from nature inclinations toward virtue and, according to Cleanthes, are like half lines of iambic verse; hence, if they remain incomplete they are base, but if they are completed they are virtuous. 

The Stoics also say that the wise man does everything in accordance with all the virtues; for his every  action is perfect and so is bereft of none of the virtues. 

IMAGE: Dai Jin, Employing Virtue (c. 1450) 



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