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antisthenes_of_athens:clement_stromata_book_2 [2012/06/02 16:52] – frankantisthenes_of_athens:clement_stromata_book_2 [2014/03/02 14:06] (current) – frank
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 <blockquote>And I agree with **Antisthenes** when he says, "Could I catch Aphrodite, I would shoot her; for she has destroyed many of our beautiful and good women." And he says that "Love is a vice of nature, and the wretches who fall under its power call the disease a deity." For in these words it is shown that stupid people are overcome from ignorance of pleasure, to which we ought to give no admittance, even though it be called a god, that is, though it be given by God for the necessity of procreation. <blockquote>And I agree with **Antisthenes** when he says, "Could I catch Aphrodite, I would shoot her; for she has destroyed many of our beautiful and good women." And he says that "Love is a vice of nature, and the wretches who fall under its power call the disease a deity." For in these words it is shown that stupid people are overcome from ignorance of pleasure, to which we ought to give no admittance, even though it be called a god, that is, though it be given by God for the necessity of procreation.
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 +Source: Translated by William Wilson. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 2. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1885.)\\
 [[http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/02102.htm|Source]] </blockquote> [[http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/02102.htm|Source]] </blockquote>
  
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 He writes expressly, in other words, "that the stop to the unbridled propensity to amorousness is hunger or a halter." He writes expressly, in other words, "that the stop to the unbridled propensity to amorousness is hunger or a halter."
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 +Source: Translated by William Wilson. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 2. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1885.)\\
 [[http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/02102.htm|Source]]</blockquote> [[http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/02102.htm|Source]]</blockquote>
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