“When he was asked what advantage had accrued to him from philosophy, his answer was, “The ability to hold converse with myself.””

—  Antisthenes

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From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius

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ἐρωτηθεὶς τί αὐτῷ περιγέγονεν ἐκ φιλοσοφίας, ἔφη, “τὸ δύνασθαι ἑαυτῷ ὁμιλεῖν.”

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