Antisthenes
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#Antisthenes
Antisthenes · c. 445–365 BCE
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“He took one strand of Socrates — the barefoot poverty, the indifference to what anyone thought — and declared that this strand was the whole rope.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Virtue — strength of character — is the only thing you need to be happy; everything else people chase, from money to comfort to applause, is not just unnecessary but dangerous.”
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