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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.11g.1
Ancient Greek
p. 316Τελειότης καὶ θεία εὐδαιμονία
Πάντα δὲ τὸν καλὸν καὶ ἀγαθὸν ἄνδρα τέλειον εἶναι λέγουσι διὰ τὸ μηδεμιᾶς ἀπολείπεσθαι ἀρετῆς· τὸν δὲ φαῦλον τοὐναντίον ἀτελῆ διὰ τὸ μηδεμιᾶς μετέχειν ἀρετῆς. Δι’ ὃ καὶ πάντως εὐδαιμονεῖν ἀεὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων τοὺς ἀγαθούς, τοὺς δὲ φαύλους κακοδαιμονεῖν. καὶ ⟨ἐκείνων⟩ τὴν εὐδαιμονίαν μὴ διαφέρειν τῆς θείας εὐδαιμονίας, μηδὲ τὴν ἀμεραίαν ὁ Χρύσιππός φησι διαφέρειν τῆς τοῦ Διὸς εὐδαιμονίας, ⟨καὶ⟩ κατὰ μηδὲν αἱρετωτέραν εἶναι μήτε καλλίω μήτε σεμνοτέραν τὴν τοῦ Διὸς εὐδαιμονίαν τῆς τῶν σοφῶν ἀνδρῶν.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 317Completeness and Divine Happiness
They say that every noble and good man is complete, because he falls short of no virtue; the base person, on the contrary, is incomplete, because he participates in no virtue.414 Hence good people are always happy in every respect, while base people are unhappy. And ⟨their⟩ happiness does not differ from divine happiness. Chrysippus says that even happiness lasting a single day does not differ from the happiness of Zeus, ⟨and⟩ that Zeus’s happiness is in no respect more choiceworthy, nobler, or more august than that of wise men.415
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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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