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c. 500-428 BC

Anaxagoras

Philosopher from Clazomenae who brought philosophy to Athens and taught that mind orders the cosmos. He was exiled for his views and met it calmly.

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  1. They've lost Athens? No. Athens has lost me.

    When someone told the exiled Anaxagoras that he had been deprived of the Athenians, he said no, they had been deprived of him. Rejection says something about both sides. Know your worth.

    Diogenes Laertius 2.10, our translation from the Greek

  2. The way down to Hades is the same from everywhere.

    To a man upset that he was dying far from home, Anaxagoras said the descent to Hades is the same from every place. Where you end matters less than how you lived on the way.

    Diogenes Laertius 2.11, our translation from the Greek