John (Joannes) Stobaeus was the author of a collection of quotes from hundreds of ancient philosophers and writers. His book is now the only extant source for the quotes. Unfortunately, the book itself is not available in English. The best I could find was a Latin/Greek book from the early 1800s digitized by Google. Googling around for this book, all I could find was people complaining there's no version of this in English. Which is a shame, because it contains some nice quotes. How do I know that? It's quoted in Montaigne's Essays. When I come across a good quote I like to go see where it came from and that led me to the unfortunate dead end. Fortunately, thanks to the wonders of LLMs, this book is now available in English again.
Below is a text version of “Anthology”, as his book is now known, translated using Google Gemini Flash 2.5 in July of 2025.