Letter 1564: Character is revealed not by what a person says but by what he does when no one is watching.
To Apollonius the Bishop: That man alone do I consider king and ruler...
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Latin / Greek Original
ΤΖΕ΄. – ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΩ ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΩ.
Ἐκεῖνον μόνον ἔγωγε βασιλέα καὶ ἡγεμόνα εἶναι
ἡγοῦμαι, ὃς ἄρξας ἑαυτοῦ τὸ ὑπήκοον ἐπιεικείᾳ καὶ
φιλανθρωπίᾳ ἀνηρτήσατο. Τοὺς δὲ ἄλλους τυράννους
κλητέον, τοὺς τοῖς ἑτέρων πόνοις ἑαυτοῖς ἡδονὰς
ἀθεμίτους πορίζοντας.
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Patrologia Graeca 78 OCR.
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