Stobaeus Quotes

Expel by reasoning the unrestrained grief of a torpid soul.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.