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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.3i.2
Ancient Greek
p. 162Περὶ τέλους · Δημόκριτος καὶ Πλάτων · συνέχεια
Ὁ δὲ Πλάτων τῷ Δημοκρίτῳ κατὰ τοῦτο συνᾴδων γράφει περὶ τοῦ κυριωτάτου τῶν ἐν ἡμῖν δεῖν ὑπολαβεῖν “ὡς ἄρ’ αὐτὸ δαίμονα ἡμῖν δέδωκεν ὁ θεός” καὶ ἐν αὐτῷ τὸ εὔδαιμον. Λέγει δὲ τοῦτ’ ἐν τῷ ἡγεμονικῷ τῆς ψυχῆς ἕξιν τινὰ ποιὰν καὶ διάθεσιν· τούτου δὲ τἀγαθοῦ τὰ μὲν πάθη κατάρχειν, ὅρον δὲ καὶ πέρας εἶναι τὸν λογισμόν. Ἀκούειν γοῦν πάρεστι· “Δύο γὰρ αὗται φύσει πηγαὶ μεθεῖνται ῥεῖν (ἡδονὴ καὶ λύπη), ὧν ὁ μὲν ἀρυόμενος ⟨ὅθεν τε δεῖ καὶ ὁπῇ καὶ ὅπως⟩ εὐδαιμονεῖ, ὁ δὲ μή, τοὐναντίον”.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 163On the End · Democritus and Plato 2
Plato, agreeing with Democritus on this point, writes that we must suppose of the most authoritative thing within us “that god has given it to us as a divine spirit,” and places happiness in it. He describes this as a disposition and state of a certain kind in the soul’s ruling part: the affections provide the beginning of this good, while reasoning is its limit and boundary.181 We can hear him say: “For these two springs are naturally allowed to flow (pleasure and pain); whoever draws from them ⟨from the source he should, in the direction and manner he should⟩ is happy, while whoever does not is the opposite.”182
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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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