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Full Idea
Crates, with his bag and threadbare cloak, spent his whole life laughing and joking as though he were on holiday.
Gist of Idea
Crates lived in poverty, and treated his whole life as a joke
Source
report of Crates (Theb) (fragments/reports [c.325 BCE]) by Plutarch - 30: Quiet of Mind 266e
Book Ref
Plutarch: 'Essays', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [Penguin 1992], p.215
A Reaction
Crates sounds a little less alarming than Diogenes, while living a similar life. Was Crates the first ancestor of post-modernism?
21336 | Crates lived in poverty, and treated his whole life as a joke [Crates of Thebes, by Plutarch] |
1767 | Everyone should study philosophy until they see all people in the same light [Crates of Thebes, by Diog. Laertius] |