{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"p-left\">And I agree with Antisthenes when he says, “Could I\r\ncatch Aphrodite, I would shoot her; for she has destroyed many of our\r\nbeautiful and good women.” And he says that “Love<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_222\" id=\"FNanchor_222\">[222]</a> is a vice of\r\nnature, and the wretches who fall under its power call the disease a\r\ndeity.” For in these words it is shown that stupid people are overcome\r\nfrom ignorance of pleasure, to which we ought to give no admittance,\r\neven though it be called a god, that is, though it be given by God for\r\nthe necessity of procreation. And Xenophon, expressly calling pleasure\r\na vice, says: “Wretch, what good dost thou know, or what honourable\r\naim hast thou? which dost not even wait for the appetite for sweet\r\nthings, eating before being hungry, drinking before being thirsty; and\r\nthat thou mayest eat pleasantly, seeking out fine cooks; and that thou\r\nmayest drink pleasantly, procuring costly wines; and in summer runnest\r\nabout seeking snow; and that thou mayest sleep pleasantly, not only\r\nprovidest soft beds, but also supports<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_223\" id=\"FNanchor_223\">[223]</a> to the couches.” Whence, as\r\nAristo said, “against the whole tetrachord of pleasure, pain, fear, and\r\nlust, there is need of much exercise and struggle.”</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER XX. THE TRUE GNOSTIC EXERCISES PATIENCE AND SELF-RESTRAINT."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_223","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-98"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3ab0eb95cfbb5b9f29107b8f664ccb581aaa298e5a5cbe16344495b60373ab23","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_223","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1869 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_223","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_223\" id=\"Footnote_223\">[223]</a> Or, “carpets.” Xenoph. <i>Memorabilia</i>, book ii.: The\r\nWords of Virtue to Vice.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_223","text_sha256":"a605417469465f9961be27e2324b3c1289bfc07bce7aed3a961b7fdc5d010fe2","verified":false,"work_id":null}