Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Porphyry
Born: 233
Died: 305 (aged 72)
Bio: Porphyry of Tyre was a Neoplatonic philosopher who was born in Tyre, in the Roman Empire. He edited and published the Enneads, the only collection of the work of his teacher Plotinus.
Known for:
- On abstinence from animal food
- Porphyry Introduction
- Select works of Porphyry
- Porphyry the Philosopher