About contentment.
The words of the same author.
If you have a great deal of wealth, take care and do not be carried away by its overflow; but endeavour to take hold of some dry ground, in order to establish your mind with proper firmness; and this will be the proper exertion of justice and fairness. And if you should have abundant supplies of all the things requisite for the indulgence of those passions which lie beneath the belly, be not carried away by such plenty, but oppose to them a saving degree of contentedness, taking in this way dry ground to stand upon instead of an absorbing quicksand.
By the same author.
One should practise being contented with a little, for this is being near God; but the contrary habit is being very far from him.
About faith in and piety towards God.
The words of Philo.
What can be a real sacrifice except the piety of a soul devoted to the love of God? whose grateful feelings are made immortal by God, having conferred on them an immortal duration like that of the sun and the moon, and the whole world.
About wicked and impious men.
From the same author.
The hopes of wicked men are unstable, as they expect a good fate, but suffer a contrary destiny of which they are worthy.
About a bad conscience.
The words of Philo, from his treatise on Men and Things which are Improperly Named.
Who is there who does wrong who is not convicted by his own conscience as if he were in a court of justice, even though no man correct him?
About advisers.
The words of Philo, from the Questions in Genesis.
Since the mind of those who have not studied philosophy is blind with respect to many of the circumstances of life, one must take those who do see the character of affairs for one’s guides.
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