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We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
Theophrastus
Born: 371 BC
Died: 287 BC (aged 84)
Bio: Theophrastus, a Greek native of Eresos in Lesbos, was the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school. He came to Athens at a young age and initially studied in Plato's school. After Plato's death, he attached himself to Aristotle.
Known for:
- Historia Plantarum
- The characters of Theophrastus
- Theophrastus on stones
- Characters
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