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D.L. 5.21-22 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume I (Books I-V), Diogenes Laertius; served verbatim
told in this form ¢—‘‘ It was not the man,” said he, ‘that I assisted, but humanity.” To the question how we should behave to friends, he answered, “ As we should wish them to behave to us.” Justice he defined as a virtue of soul which distributes according to merit. Education he declared to be the best provision for old age. Favorinus in the second book of his Memorabilia mentions as one of his habitual sayings that ‘“‘ He who has friends can have no true friend.’ Further, this is found in the seventh book of the Ethics.» These then are the sayings attributed to him. His writings are very numerous and, considering the man’s all-round excellence, I deemed it incumbent on me to catalogue them ®¢ : Of Justice, four books. On Poets, three books. On Philosophy, three books. Of the Statesman, two books. On Rhetoric, or Grylus, one book. Nerinthus, one book. The Sophist, one book. Menexenus, one book. Concerning Love, one book. Symposium, one book. Of Wealth, one book. Exhortation to Philosophy, one book. Of the Soul, one book. Of Prayer, one book. On Noble Birth, one book.

The Greek stands ready in the workroom; the English is served. Both faces will read together.

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Filed here — the addresses this episode attests; counted by the house’s first pass
Memorabilia — a candidate entry

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)
license: public-domain (US: published 1925, pre-1930 — the MCMXXV title page verified by the 2026-07-08 acquisition lane, pin in ops/sources/MANIFEST.md; only the English rectos are served, Hicks's translation)