Jean Stobée citations

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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?””

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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