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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 31 · II.31.74–II.31.75
Ancient Greek
p. 816Διογένης
Διογένης ἄτοπον ἔφησεν εἶναι ἐπὶ μὲν τὸν λύχνον ἐπιχεῖν ἔλαιον, ἵνα ἐπὶ τῆς τραπέζης ὁρῶμεν, ὅπως δὲ τῇ διανοίᾳ φρονιμώτεροι γενόμενοι κατανοήσομεν τὰ τῷ βίῳ βέλτιστα, μηδὲν ἐθέλειν ἀναλίσκειν.
Ὁ αὐτός
Ὁ αὐτὸς ἐρωτηθείς, τί ἡ γῆ βαστάζει βαρύτατον, ἔφη· «ἄνθρωπον ἀπαίδευτον».
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 31
p. 817Diogenes
Diogenes said it was absurd to pour oil into a lamp so that we can see at the table,1194 yet be unwilling to spend anything so that, becoming wiser in mind, we can discern what is best for life.1195
Diogenes: The same man
When the same man was asked what was the heaviest thing borne by the earth, he said, “An uneducated person.”1196
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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