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Ideas of Crates (Theb), by Text

[Greek, 365 - 285 BCE, Born in Thebes, Greece. Taught by Diogenes III. Zeno of Citium was a pupil. Died in Boeotia.]

325BCE

fragments/reports

p.215

21336

Crates lived in poverty, and treated his whole life as a joke [Plutarch]

p.252

1767

Everyone should study philosophy until they see all people in the same light [Diog. Laertius]