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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?”

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Joannes Stobaeus (Ἰωάννης ὁ Στοβαῖος; fl. 5th-century CE) was the compiler of a valuable series of extracts from Greek authors.

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Native Name: Ἰωάννης ὁ Στοβαῖος

Alternative Names: Johannes Stobaeus • Ioannis Stobaios • Stobæus • Stobsaeus • Stobsæus • Joannes Stobæus • Johannes Stobæus • Joannes Stobaeus • Joannes Stobsæus • Johannes Stobsæus • Joannes Stobsaeus • Johannes Stobsaeus

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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.

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

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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