Letter 1571: True humility is not the absence of accomplishment but the refusal to boast about it.
Since it cannot come into being, but easily proceeds toward non-being. The probable, then...
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Latin / Greek Original
Α ναι μὴ δυναμένης, ἀλλ᾽ εἰς τὸ μὴ ὂν χωρῆσαι ῥᾳδίως
ἐπισταμένης. Τὸ εἰκὸς μὲν γὰρ ζητεῖτε, ἀλλ' οὐδέπω
τούτῳ καιρός. Ἥξει χρόνος ὅτε λάμψετε ὡς ἥλιος ·
τοὺς δὲ τῆς τῶν ἀνθρώπων ὑψηλοτέρους δόξης, ὡς
φιλοσόφους ἀναῤῥητέον.
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Patrologia Graeca 78 OCR.
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