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Book I Chapter 41 · I.41.1.8–I.41.1.10
Ancient Greek
p. 8221.8
Τὸ ἀεὶ γινόμενον ἀεὶ καὶ φθείρεται, τὸ δὲ ἅπαξ γινόμενον οὐδέποτε φθείρεται οὐδὲ ἄλλο τι γίνεται.
Πρῶτον ὁ θεός, δεύτερον ὁ κόσμος, τρίτον ὁ ἄνθρωπος.
Ὁ κόσμος διὰ τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ὁ δὲ ἄνθρωπος διὰ τὸν θεόν.
1.9
Ψυχῆς τὸ μὲν αἰσθητικὸν θνητόν, τὸ δὲ λογικὸν ἀθάνατον.
Πᾶσα οὐσία ἀθάνατος, πᾶσα οὐσία μεταβλητή.
Πᾶν τὸ ὂν διττόν, οὐδὲν τῶν ὄντων ἕστηκεν.
Οὐ πάντα ψυχῇ κινεῖται, πᾶν δὲ ὂν ψυχὴ κινεῖ.
1.10
Πᾶν τὸ πάσχον αἴσθεται, ⟨οὐ⟩ πᾶν τὸ αἰσθόμενον πάσχει.
Πᾶν τὸ λυπούμενον καὶ ἥδεται [ζῷον θνητόν], οὐ πᾶν τὸ ἡδόμενον λυπεῖται [ζῷον ἀίδιον].
Οὐ πᾶν σῶμα νοσεῖ· πᾶν σῶμα νοσοῦν διαλυτόν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 41
p. 8231.8 · Generation and the threefold order
What is always coming into being is also always perishing; what comes into being once never perishes or becomes anything else.
First is God, second the cosmos, third the human being.
The cosmos is for the human being, and the human being for God.1065
1.9 · Soul, substance, and motion
The perceptive part of the soul is mortal, the rational part immortal.
Every substance is immortal; every substance can change.
Everything that exists is twofold; none of the things that exist stands still.
Not everything is moved by soul, yet soul moves everything that exists.1066
1.10 · Perception, pain, and pleasure
Everything that is affected perceives; ⟨not⟩ everything that perceives is affected.
Everything that feels pain also feels pleasure [a mortal living being]; not everything that feels pleasure feels pain [an everlasting living being].
Not every body is subject to disease; every diseased body can dissolve.1067
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