Letter of Aristeas on Separation from Non-Jews
130“You observe,” he said, “what kind of result is produced by conduct and associations, since people who associate with evildoers become perverted, and they are miserable in the whole of life. But if they live together with wise and prudent people, out of ignorance they meet with improvement in their manner of living. [ . . . ]
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