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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Diogenes Laërtius

Born: 180
Died: 240 (aged 60)
Bio: Diogenes Laertius was a biographer of the Greek philosophers. Nothing is definitively known about his life, but his surviving Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is a principal source for the history of Greek philosophy.
Known for:
- Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
- The Stoics
- Sayings of Diogenes the Cynic
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