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The Manila Times9d
What the new workplace needs from graduates
THE people who run schools may consider as clients or patrons their enrolled students and the parents who pay for their ...
La Brújula Verde2mon
Bias of Priene, the most prominent of the Seven Sages, recommended loving friends as if they were enemies and freed women from slavery
His wisdom was transmitted through the generations in the form of aphorisms, anecdotes, and quotes collected by others. Diogenes Laertius says that he wrote a long poem of 2,000 verses in which he ...
The Boston Globe6mon
Capital-C Cynicism is the cure for cynicism - The Boston Globe
It was, the ancient biographer Diogenes Laertius suggested, less a school than a way of life. And what a way of life it was. Just ask the other Diogenes, the most famous, or infamous, of the ...
La Brújula Verde6mon
Damo, the Philosopher Daughter of Pythagoras, to Whom He Entrusted All His Writings and Who Never Wanted to Sell Them, Preferring Poverty Over Gold
Diogenes Laertius, in his work Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, briefly mentions Damo’s role in transmitting Pythagorean knowledge, highlighting how she preserved her father’s texts and ...
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Aristoxenus of Tarentum, the philosopher who authored the oldest known treatise on music, and healed by playing the flute
And a curiosity as an epilogue: Diogenes Laertius, 3rd-century AD Greek historian and doxographer, records a lost testimony from Parmenides according to which Aristoxenus was the first to realize that ...
The Pioneer8mon
The rich heritage of Indian astrology and its global Influences - The Pioneer
It should be noted that his book on the lives of philosophers, Diogenes Laertius writes that the great Democritus learned from Magi-Priests. This could be the class of Varahamihira.