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