a day he would retire into himself, and he assigned, it is said, a whole hour to silence. He left a very large number of treatises, poems and addresses, of which I append a list : On Nature, six books. On Wisdom, six books. On Wealth, one book. The Arcadian, one book. On the Indeterminate, one book. On the Child, one book. On Continence, one book. On Utility, one book. On Freedom, one book. On Death, one book. On the Voluntary, one book. On Friendship, two books. On Equity, one book. On that which is Contrary, two books. On Happiness, two books. On Writing, one book. On Memory, one book. On Falsehood, one book. Callicles, one book. On Prudence, two books. The Householder, one book. On Temperance, one book. On the Influence of Law, one book. On the State, one book. On Holiness, one book. That Virtue can be taught, one book. On Being, one book. On Fate, one book.
The Greek stands ready in the workroom; the English is served. Both faces will read together.
Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume I (Books I-V), Diogenes Laertius — translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925
Apparatus shelf — Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, vol. I (R. D. Hicks translation, Loeb L184) · R. D. Hicks, Loeb Classical Library, London: William Heinemann / New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, MCMXXV (1925)
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