Stobaeus Quotes

Joannes Stobaeus , from Stobi in Macedonia, was the compiler of a valuable series of extracts from Greek authors. The work was originally divided into two volumes containing two books each. The two volumes became separated in the manuscript tradition, and the first volume became known as the Extracts and the second volume became known as the Anthology . Modern editions now refer to both volumes as the Anthology. The Anthology contains extracts from hundreds of writers, especially poets, historians, orators, philosophers and physicians. The subjects covered range from natural philosophy, dialectics, and ethics, to politics, economics, and maxims of practical wisdom. The work preserves fragments of many authors and works who otherwise might be unknown today.

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Famous Stobaeus Quotes

“Spare your life, lest you consume it with sorrow and care.”

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Pythagorean Ethical Sentences

“Diogenes, on being sold as a slave at Corinth, was asked by the auctioneer what he could do. "Rule men," he replied. "Do you suppose," asked the other, "that people want to buy masters?””

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Quotes by and about Diogenes

“To the wise man every land is eligible as a place of residence; for the whole world is the country of the worthy soul.”

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“Pride, like a shepherd, drives people where it pleases.”

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Quotes by and about Diogenes

“Pythagoras said, that it was requisite either to be silent, or to say something better than silence.”

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“Be rather delighted with those that reprove, than with those that flatter you.”

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Stobaeus Quotes about the soul

“When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.”

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“As a bodily disease cannot be healed, if it be concealed, or praised, thus also, neither can a remedy be applied to a diseased soul, which is badly guarded and protected.”

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“Expel by reasoning the unrestrained grief of a torpid soul.”

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Stobaeus Quotes

“Pythagoras being asked how a man ought to conduct himself towards his country, when it had acted iniquitously with respect to him, replied, as to a mother.”

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“Those things which the body necessarily requires, are easily to be procured by all men, without labour and molestation; but those things to the attainment of which labour and molestation are requisite, are objects of desire, not to the body, but to depraved opinion.”

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“The things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.”

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Quotes by and about Diogenes

“Pythagoras said, that of cities that was the best which contained most worthy men.”

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“The life of the avaricious resembles a funeral banquet. For though it has all things requisite to a feast, yet no one present rejoices.”

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“Other dogs bite their enemies, but I my friends in order to save them.”

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