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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.3i.1
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p. 160Περὶ τέλους · Δημόκριτος καὶ Πλάτων
Δημόκριτος καὶ Πλάτων κοινῶς ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ τὴν εὐδαιμονίαν τίθενται. Γέγραφε δ’ ὁ μὲν οὕτως· “Εὐδαιμονίη ψυχῆς καὶ κακοδαιμονίη.” “Εὐδαιμονίη οὐκ ἐν βοσκήμασι οἰκεῖ, οὐδὲ ἐν χρυσῷ· ψυχὴ οἰκητήριον δαίμονος”. Τὴν δ’ ⟨εὐδαιμονίαν καὶ⟩ εὐθυμίαν καὶ εὐεστὼ καὶ ἁρμονίαν, συμμετρίαν τε καὶ ἀταραξίαν καλεῖ· συνίστασθαι δ’ αὐτὴν ἐκ τοῦ διορισμοῦ καὶ τῆς διακρίσεως τῶν ἡδονῶν· καὶ τοῦτ’ εἶναι τὸ κάλλιστόν τε καὶ συμφορώτατον ἀνθρώποις.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 161On the End · Democritus and Plato 1
Democritus and Plato both place happiness in the soul. The former wrote as follows: “Happiness is of the soul, and so is unhappiness.” “Happiness dwells neither in herds nor in gold; the soul is the dwelling of a divine spirit.”179 He also calls it ⟨happiness and⟩ cheerfulness, well-being, harmony, proportion, and freedom from disturbance. He says that it is constituted by setting limits to and distinguishing among pleasures, and that this is what is noblest and most advantageous for human beings.180
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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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