The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
Diogenes Laertius; Yonge
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- BOOK X.Sample
- I. Some say that the study of philosophy originated with
- X. But of Philosophy there arose two schools. One derived
- II. After having been immersed in state affairs he
- THALES TO PHERECYDES.
- Preface
- II. In consequence of this victory the Mitylenæans held
- VI. He flourished about the forty-second Olympiad; and
- II. Cleobulus composed songs and obscure sayings in verse
- IX. Thrasybulus also wrote him a letter in the following
- X. But Demetrius says that some writers report that he
- Preface
- BOOK II.
- III. And this philosopher wrote the following letters:—
- IV. And again he writes:—
- II. Some people believed that he assisted Euripides in his
- XVI. He used also to say that the dæmon foretold
- XXIII. So he died; but the Athenians immediatelyrepented
- Preface
- XIII. He also wrote near forty books; though different
- V. And even Aristippus suspected the genuineness of some
- VIII. Now Panætius thinks that the Dialogues of the
- XIII. He considered joy and grief as the chief goods:
- Preface
- BOOK III.
- Preface
- XXXV. But Thrasybulus says that he published his dialogues
- XXXVIII. But he employs a great variety of terms in
- Preface
- BOOK IV.
- Preface
- III. He met with Crantor in the following manner. He
- XIII. And being a very liberal man and utterly regardless
- Preface
- BOOK V.
- V. Accordingly Cassander received him as a friend; and
- Preface
- BOOK VI.
- Preface
- IX. And he bore being sold with a most magnanimous
- Preface
- BOOK VII.
- Preface
- LXV. And they say that virtues reciprocally follow one
- LXVII. They divide natural philosophy into the topics of
- LXXVI. And they say that the substance of all existing
- LXXXII. They also think that the general arrangement
- Preface
- BOOK VIII.
- Preface
- XXIV. And he flourished about the sixtieth olympiad;
- Preface
- BOOK IX.
- Preface
- III. He wrote poems in hexameter and in elegiac verse;
- III. Parmenides too philosophizes in his poems; as Hesiod
- II. Timon speaks thus of him and Melissus:—
- Preface
- X. But Agrippa adds five other modes to them. One
- Preface
- BOOK X.
- IV. And in the thirty-seven books which he wrote about
- XIX. Now he divides philosophy into three parts. The
- XX. Dialectics they wholly reject as superfluous. For they
- XXII. The se preconceptions then furnish us with certainty.
- XXIV. Let us now go to the letter:—
- Preface
- XXV. About the heavenly bodies he writes thus:—
- FOOTNOTES
- INDEX.