View the original site, visit archive.sacred-texts.com
XXII. Miscellaneous Notes: 1486.
Sign in Sign up
XXII. Miscellaneous Notes: 1486.
The archive, offline Own the Wisdom of the Ages Every text in the library on a single USB drive. Read offline, cite freely, keep forever. No subscription required.
Get the drive $127.00

XXII. Miscellaneous Notes: 1486.

1486.

CORNELIUS CELSUS.

The highest good is wisdom, the chief evil is suffering in the body. Because, as we are composed of two things, that is soul and body, of which the first is the better, the body is the inferior; wisdom belongs to the better part, and the chief evil belongs to the worse part and is the worst of all. As the best thing of all in the soul is wisdom, so the worst in the body is suf- fering. Therefore just as bodily pain is the chief evil, wisdom is the chief good of the soul, that is with the wise man; and nothing else can be compared with it. 824

Footnotes
  1. 448:824

    : Aulus Cornelius Celsus, a Roman physician, known as the Roman Hippocrates, probably contemporary with Augustus. Only his eight Books 'De Medicina", are preserved. The earliest editions are: Cornelius Celsus, de medicina libr. VIII., Milan 1481 Venice 1493 and 1497.

Read ad-free with unlimited highlights, bookmarks, and annotations. $10/mo Become a Member Join

Comments and social are coming soon

Reader conversations and shared activity will appear here.

1672 of 1768 Book 95% ~1 min left