“Euripides says,—
Who knows but that this life is really death,
And whether death is not what men call life?”

— Diogenes Laërtius

Pyrrho, 8.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 9: Uncategorized philosophers and Skeptics

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biographer of ancient Greek philosophers 180–240

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