Stobaeus quotes

Stobaeus was a Greek anthologist best known for compiling the extensive work known as the "Anthology," a major source of fragments from ancient Greek philosophers and writers. His collection preserved many extracts from otherwise lost works, making it invaluable to modern scholarship. He contributed greatly to the preservation and transmission of classical Greek thought. Here are 15 of his quotes:

Pride, like a shepherd, drives people where it pleases. (Stobaeus)
The things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice. View quote
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Spare your life, lest you consume it with sorrow and care. View quote
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Pythagoras said, that it was requisite either to be silent, or to say something better than silence. View quote
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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. View quote
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Be rather delighted with those that reprove, than with those that flatter you. View quote
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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. View quote
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When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple. View quote
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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?”. View quote
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To the wise man every land is eligible as a place of residence; for the whole world is the country of the worthy soul. View quote
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Pythagoras said, that of cities that was the best which contained most worthy men. (Stobaeus)
Expel by reasoning the unrestrained grief of a torpid soul. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Other dogs bite their enemies, but I my friends in order to save them. View quote
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