Tusculan Disputations · Character

Theophrastus

Peripatetic philosopher and student of Aristotle; cited on ethical topics.

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Also known as Theophrastus

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Criticized for asserting that fortune, not wisdom, rules life, and for claiming the tortured cannot be happy.

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Philo of Larissa
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