Vitae philosophorum

Diogenes Laertius

Diogenes Laertius. Hicks, R. D., editor. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1925.

  • On Teaching.
  • On the Art of Conversation
  • Of Judging.
  • Of Being.
  • Of Number.
  • On Diligence.
  • On Efficiency.
  • On Greed.
  • On Pretentiousness.
  • On the Beautiful

    • Others are:

  • On Deliberation.
  • On Reason, or On Expediency.
  • On Doing Ill.

    • He was the first, so we are told, who introduced the Socratic dialogues as a form of conversation. When Pericles promised to support him and urged him to come to him, his reply was, I will not part with my free speech for money.