“Another of his sayings was, that education was the best viaticum of old age.”

— Diogenes Laërtius

Aristotle, 9.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 5: The Peripatetics

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biographer of ancient Greek philosophers 180–240

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