“Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces."”

— Diogenes Laërtius

Xenocrates, 3.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 4: The Academy

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biographer of ancient Greek philosophers 180–240

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