Clement of Alexandria: STROMATA (MISCELLANIES), Part IV, Complete

Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.

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Euripides transcribes in Chrysippus:--

"But nothing dies

Of things that are; but being dissolved,

One from the other,

Shows another form."

And Plato having said, in the Republic, that women were common, Euripides writes in the Protesilaus:--

"For common, then, is woman's bed."

Further, Euripides having written:--

"For to the temperate enough sufficient is"--

Epicurus expressly says, "Sufficiency is the greatest riches of all."

Again, Aristophanes having written:--

"Life thou securely shalt enjoy, being just

And free from turmoil, and from fear live well,"--

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