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Updated: June 27, 2025
BOSWELL. The saying is from Diogenes Laertius, bk. v. ch. 'Love, the most generous passion of the mind, The softest refuge innocence can find; The safe director of unguided youth, Fraught with kind wishes, and secured by truth; That cordial drop Heaven in our cup has thrown, To make the nauseous draught of life go down.
He had acquired the habit of reading a few pages in his Diogenes Laertius every night, before he went to bed. He knew enough Greek to enjoy the peculiarities of the text which he owned. He had now no other enjoyment. Several weeks passed. All at once, Mother Plutarque fell ill.
When I hear talk nowadays about the dues of the common people, my propensity to laugh is so great that I am apprehensive that my end may be like that of the Greek philosopher in Diogenes Laertius, who died of laughter because he saw an ass eating figs. The trials and tribulations of the literary life, its feuds and its backbitings are a common topic of conversation.
'My dear girl, Diogenes Laertius had neither tub nor lantern, that I know of. You are making a mistake; but it doesn't matter. 'No, I don't think it does. The caustic note was not very pleasant on Amy's lips. 'Whoever he was, the mass of readers will be frightened by his name. 'Well, we have to recognise that the mass of readers will never care for anything I do.
Homer may lose a line as well as Dieuchidas of Megara, or rather Diogenes Laertius. Juvenal lost a whole passage, re-discovered by Mr. Winstedt in a Bodleian manuscript. In the whole passage the poet's main motive, as Mr. Herein the homesick host will display its humours, as it does with a vengeance.
Of the 300 works he is said to have written, nothing has come down to us except three letters, giving a summary of his views for the use of his friends, and a number of detached sayings, preserved by Diogenes Laertius and others. Moreover, some fragments of his work on Nature have been found at Herculaneum.
He travelled, into Crete, Asia, and at a later period into Egypt. According to Laertius, Egypt taught him geometry. He is supposed to have derived his astrological notions from Phoenicia. But this he might easily have done without visiting the Phoenician states. Returning to Miletus, he obtained his title of Wise . Much learning has been exhausted upon his doctrines to very little purpose.
According to Laërtius his voice was shrill and squeaking, his eyes small, his legs slender, and he dressed magnificently. Aristotle was a man of acute parts, and one who easily comprehended the most difficult questions. He soon became master of the doctrines of Plato, and distinguished himself among the other academicians.
The De Officiis of CICERO had been translated again and again, and others of his writings. The Morals of PLUTARCH, as we have already seen, were accessible in English. The book on the History of Philosophy by the Greek DIOGENES LAERTIUS was not yet in English, but a Latin translation was extant.
Anaxagoras was put in prison for affirming that the sun was by many degrees larger than the whole Peloponnesus . Kepler is of opinion that all the stars are at an equal distance from us, and are fixed in the same surface or sphere. Plutarch, De Placitis Philosophorum. Diogenes Laertius.
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