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[filed under theme 23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism ]

Full Idea

A Cyrenaic will not consider anyone else of equal importance with himself.

Gist of Idea

For a Cyrenaic no one is of equal importance to himself

Source

report of Aristippus the younger (fragments/reports [c.335 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 02.7.9

Book Ref

Diogenes Laertius: 'Diogenes Laertius', ed/tr. Yonge,C.D. [Henry G. Bohn 1853], p.92