Philosophy is the study of death ... The Philosopher writes when he is in rest ... (Plato)
One day he was reviled, he tried to slip away; the other pursued him, asking, "Why do you run away?" "Because," said he, "as it is your privilege to use foul language, so it is my privilege not to listen." (Aristippus 435-350 B.C)
Heraiscos was a philosopher that he could distinguish the dead from the living statues with a self-instructive method. As soon as he was coming in contact with a statue, a strucking feeling in his heart were happening from the deism, and sprang the soul and his body as if it was occupied by the god. If it didn't become such something, inanimate was that statue and without divine inspiration. ( SUIDAE LEXIKON)
Timon (5th B.C) was Athenian affluent citizen, which became famous for his misanthropy. Ancient writers reports him as example of misanthropy Ploutarhos reports. When Timon were presented in the “church of municipality” and after he went up in the step, he said in the amazed Athenians: "Men Athenians, you know that I have a property in the mountain of Hymettus and that in this exists a fig tree, by which many until were now hunged. Because therefore, I intend to build a hut and I decide to cut the tree, I want to announce to you, in order to hurry to hung, those from you they want ". The subject of Timon and his misanthropy becomes a reason and in Lucianos that offends one more time the boiling hot problem of wealth, poverty and human dignity. Source: (in Greek) Wikipedia
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