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Diogenes Laertius


Native of Laerte in Cilicia, was a biographer of ancient Greek philosophers.
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Diogenes Laertius
Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule in his comedies, as making the worse appear the better reason.
Laertius quotes
Thales said there was no difference between life and death. "Why, then," said some one to him, "do not you die?" "Because," said he, "it does make no difference."
Laertius
But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boëthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated.




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