Philo of Alexandria

“The world is my country, and the human race is my kindred.”

“For no created thing is self-sufficient.”

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.”

“For nothing is more hostile to a soul which is really desirous to be a servant to God, than the opinion of its own wisdom.”

“Wisdom is a thing which is not to be acquired by any one of the senses.”

“For the seeking of the only God is the most proper and the primary business of the soul.”

“Justice is an agreement of the soul with itself, and a beautiful and praiseworthy harmony of its parts.”

“It is the characteristic of a good man to be of a social disposition, and to be a lover of mankind.”

“A wicked man is a voluntary plague.”

“For it is not the place which sanctifies the man, but the man who sanctifies the place.”

“The mind which is not enslaved to any of the passions is a truly free.”

“For God is not a being who is visible to the eyes, but he is perceptible only by the intellect.”

“God is the maker of all things, the father of the universe.”

“Hope is the consolation of the afflicted.”

“The law is a rule of life, teaching us what we ought to do, and what we ought to abstain from doing.”