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It is better to do good to a dog and a lion than to feed a thankless person. When the dog and the lion become tame, they remain friends of those who feed them. The disorderly person not only does not remain a friend but you will find that when you are doing him a favour, he is trying to rob your
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In modern times, and especially with the strong French and
British influence during the colonial period, there was a resurgence of Coptic philosophical writing. Two notable examples of modern Coptic philosophers are Bishop Gregorius (General Bishop of Higher Studies) and Zakariyya Ibrahim.
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teaching. Many leaves of a Coptic manuscript consisting of philosophical texts, fables with
Christian interpretations and explicitly Christian texts survive dispersed between libraries in Vienna and London. The parchment manuscript was copied in the 10th or 11th century in the
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Conflicting Coptic attitudes to Greek philosophy are apparent in several sources. Some philosophy, or at least Plato, seems to have been a standard part of a Coptic education in the first centuries AD.
164:, "acquiring from them the philosophy of deeds whereas before he only knew the philosophy of words". In this passage, Socrates uses "philosophy" in its original sense (love of wisdom), even citing the
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Philosophy and Monastic Origenism in the Coptic Excerpt from Plato's
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contain extensive philosophizing, few of these are known to have been translated into Coptic. The most notable is
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Ward, William A. (1957). "The
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in 1270–71, combines theology, ethics and philosophy. It contains a
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Hammadi c.350 CE: Comparing the Gnostic with the Original
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portrays its subject as an implacable foe of the philosophers.
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Gregory: Mind, Soul and Body in the 4th Century
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528:. Fortress Press.
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