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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 8 · II.8.32.1
Ancient Greek
p. 584Ἐκ τοῦ Πλουτάρχου Περὶ φιλίας · 1
Ὅθεν οὐ δεῖ παντάπασι ταπεινοῦν τὴν φύσιν ὡς μηδὲν ἰσχυρὸν μηδὲ μόνιμον μηδὲ ὑπὲρ τὴν τύχην ἔχουσαν, ἀλλὰ τοὐναντίον εἰδότας ὅτι μικρόν ἐστι μέρος τοῦ ἀνθρώπου σαθρόν τε καὶ ἐπίκηρον ὃ δέχεται τὴν τύχην, τῆς δὲ βελτίονος μερίδος αὐτοὶ κρατοῦμεν, ἐν ᾗ τὰ μέγιστα τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἱδρυνθέντα, δόξαι τε χρησταὶ καὶ μαθήματα καὶ λόγοι τελευτῶντες εἰς ἀρετὴν ἀναφαίρετον ἔχουσι τὴν οὐσίαν καὶ ἀδιάφθορον,
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 8
p. 585From Plutarch’s On Friendship · 1
Therefore we should not altogether belittle our nature as though it had nothing strong, stable, or above fortune.825 On the contrary, we should recognize that it is a small part of the human being, frail and perishable, that is open to fortune, while we ourselves control the better part. There the greatest goods are established—sound opinions, learning, and reasonings leading to virtue—and their substance can neither be taken away nor destroyed.826
Socrates
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The complete surviving text of Stobaeus’s second book, through II.46.22, in Ancient Greek and English, with an introduction and 1,541 explanatory notes. All forty-six chapter headings remain, including the notices for chapters whose texts are missing.
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Greek: Curt Wachsmuth, Ioannis Stobaei Anthologii libri duo priores, volumen II (Berlin: Weidmann, 1884), printed p. 1 and pp. 3–264. The supplied edition preserves consequential editorial signs, reconstructed joins, qualified attributions, and missing-text notices. English translation, introduction, and explanatory notes: Diotimos Editions, 2026.
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