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Single Idea 417

[from 'fragments/reports' by Heraclitus, in 13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 1. Relativism ]

Full Idea

Donkeys prefer chaff to gold.

Gist of Idea

Donkeys prefer chaff to gold

Source

Heraclitus (fragments/reports [c.500 BCE], B009), quoted by Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics 1176a07

Book Reference

'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.25