Thursday, January 16, 2025
The Fairest Thing
Diogenes Laertius 6.2.69 (on Diogenes the Cynic; tr. R.D. Hicks):
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Being asked what was the most beautiful thing in the world, he replied, "Freedom of speech."This is fragment 473 of Diogenes the Cynic in Gabriele Giannantoni, ed., Socraticorum Reliquiae, Vol. II (Naples: Bibliopolis, 1983), p. 585.
ἐρωτηθεὶς τί κάλλιστον ἐν ἀνθρώποις, ἔφη, "παρρησία."
