Miscellanies 2.22.132

For example, Plato, teaching that this likeness will come to the virtuous man with humility, interprets somewhere that saying, “Everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.” He says, at any rate, in the Laws: “God, as the ancient saying has it, holding the beginning, middle, and end of all things, goes straight to his goal, moving according to nature; and Justice always follows him, the avenger of those who fall short of the divine law.” Do you see how he too brings caution to the divine law? He adds, at any rate: “Holding fast to her, the one who is to be happy follows, humble and orderly.” Then, joining what follows to these and admonishing by fear, he adds: “What conduct, then, is dear to God and follows him? One, having one ancient principle: that like will be dear to like, when it is measured, while unmeasured things are dear neither to one another nor to the measured. The one who is to become dear to God, then, must necessarily become like this himself as far as possible.”