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Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

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    Timon

    historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages

    Timon of Phlius · misanthropos · the Man-hater

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    Timon of Phlius1 mention

    Stromata (Greek)

    For most beautifully does Timon of Phlius write:
    book 5

    in the texts

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    Author of the satirical Silloi, quoted mocking Socrates.

    "From these he turned aside, the stone-cutter, the babbler about laws, the enchanter of the Greeks," says Timon in the Silloi, because he turned aside from natural philosophy to ethics.
    book 1
    For most beautifully does Timon of Phlius write:
    book 5

    BirdsClassical · Greek

    The proverbial Athenian misanthrope, invoked by Prometheus as a simile for his own hatred of the gods.

    Towards them I am a veritable Timon;
    birds

    Tusculan DisputationsHellenistic · Latin

    Legendary misanthrope cited as the standard example of hatred toward all mankind.

    and likewise are defined both a hatred of women, as of Hippolytus, and, as of Timon, of the human race.
    book 4
    But those things which are contrary to these are thought to be born from fear, as a hatred of women, such as is in the Misogynist of Atilius, as a hatred toward the whole race of men, which we have heard of Timon, who is called the Man-hater (misanthropos), as inhospitality is:
    book 4