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Stobaeus
14 quotes
“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.”
Stobaeus (430–470) said by 470 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Stobaeus (430–470) said by 470 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be rather delighted with those that reprove, than with those that flatter you.”
Stobaeus (430–470) said by 470 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The life of the avaricious resembles a funeral banquet. For though it has all things requisite to a feast, yet no one present rejoices.”
Stobaeus (430–470) said by 470 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pythagoras said, that it was requisite either to be silent, or to say something better than silence.”
Stobaeus (430–470) said by 470 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Stobaeus (430–470) said by 470 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To the wise man every land is eligible as a place of residence; for the whole world is the country of the worthy soul.”
Stobaeus (430–470) said by 470 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pythagoras said, that of cities that was the best which contained most worthy men.”
Stobaeus (430–470) said by 470 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Expel by reasoning the unrestrained grief of a torpid soul.”
Stobaeus (430–470) said by 470 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Spare your life, lest you consume it with sorrow and care.”
Stobaeus (430–470) said by 470 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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?”
Stobaeus (430–470) said by 470 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Other dogs bite their enemies, but I my friends in order to save them.”
Stobaeus (430–470) said by 470 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pride, like a shepherd, drives people where it pleases.”
Stobaeus (430–470) said by 470 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.”
Stobaeus (430–470) said by 470 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source