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1 3 | 3. If we may classify virtues as physical, moral and political,
2 3 | begin with the physical virtues which are born with us.
3 6 | him to acquire the moral virtues, and to accustom himself
4 9 | were so charmed with the virtues of this youth that Olympiodorus,
5 14| Besides, he acquired political virtues, which he derived from Aristotle'
6 14| explaining to him the political virtues and methods, acting like
7 14| individuals, in all kinds of virtues, but especially in justice.
8 15| conduct; teaching them the virtues not only by discourses,
9 18| philosopher's political virtues, which are crowned by friendship,
10 18| inferior to the kinds of higher virtues, let us now proceed to a
11 18| to a different kind, the virtues purificatory. For while
12 18| opinions, the purificatory virtues are superior to them, because
13 18| things here below.~These are virtues which our philosopher practiced
14 21| purificative justice, and the virtues imparted to his whole life
15 22| Provided with this sort of virtues, without effort, and with
16 22| and higher [contemplative] virtues, as if led by the hand,
17 24| dignity equals this sort of virtues. Not like those of which
18 25| accompanies this noetic order of virtues, consisting of the soul'
19 26| possessed and practiced these virtues when he was still studying
20 26| achieved the highest of the virtues which the divine Iamblichus
21 26| manifest signs of his ancestral virtues, which proved that he belonged
22 34| results of his theurgic virtues, after having shown that
23 34| level with all his other virtues, and that to a degree unheard
24 34| the resultant of all his virtues. In short, we have expounded
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