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“Earth without ART is EH”
― Stobaeus, God, Nature and the Gods

“The life of the avaricious resembles a funeral banquet, for though it has all things requisite to a feast, no one present rejoices.”
― Joannes Stobaeus

“Endeavour not to conceal your errors by words, but to remedy them by reproof.”
― Joannes Stobaeus

“Philolaus says that there is fire in the middle at the centre ... and again more fire at the highest point and surrounding everything. By nature the middle is first, and around it dance ten divine bodies — the sky, the planets, then the sun, next the moon, next the earth, next the counterearth, and after all of them the fire of the hearth which holds position at the centre. The highest part of the surrounding, where the elements are found in their purity, he calls Olympus; the regions beneath the orbit of Olympus, where are the five planets with the sun and the moon, he calls the world; the part under them, being beneath the moon and around the earth, in which are found generation and change, he calls the sky.
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― Stobaeus, Anthologion. Ioannis Stobæi Florilegium: Ad Manuscriptorum Fidem Emendavit Et Supplevit Thomas Gaisford

“One evening, while drinking wine, the nephew of Solon the Athenian sang one of Sappho's songs, and Solon liked it so much that he ordered the boy to teach it to him. When one of the company asked why he was learning it, he answered, 'I want to learn it and die.”
― Stobaeus, Anthologion. Ioannis Stobæi Florilegium: Ad Manuscriptorum Fidem Emendavit Et Supplevit Thomas Gaisford