“It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.”
Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Xenophanes, 3.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 9: Uncategorized philosophers and Skeptics
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