Antisthenes: Mean

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“The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.”

Antisthenes

Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus, i. 17

“Antisthenes … said once to a youth from Pontus who was on the point of coming to him to be his pupil, and was asking him what things he wanted, "You want a new book, and a new pen, and a new tablet;" - meaning a new mind.”

Antisthenes

§ 4
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius

“There is no work so mean, but it would amply serve me to furnish me with sustenance.”

Antisthenes

iv. 35
From Symposium by Xenophon