The Wars of the Jews, 1.463

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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463But for such as cultivate a friendship with my sons, so as to aim at my destruction, they shall be punished by me on their account. I am not one who envy my own children, and therefore forbid men to pay them great respect; but I know that such [extravagant] respects are the way to make them insolent.

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