Abridgment of the Lives of the Ancient Philosophers, with a Collection of Their Finest Maxims

Name: Abridgment of the Lives of the Ancient Philosophers, with a Collection of Their Finest Maxims
Author: François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon

François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon

This book is in French.

The lives of twenty-three Greek sages and philosophers, from Thales to Zeno, with their maxims, written for the Duke of Burgundy after Diogenes Laertius (published 1726). Fénelon’s authorship has been questioned; the 1851 edition counts it among his literary works.

Source: Machine-cleaned OCR: running heads, page numbers and hyphenation removed, paragraphs rejoined, obvious character errors corrected by a vote against the corpus vocabulary; period spelling kept. Residual OCR errors remain (see PROBLEMS.md). Authorship doubtful.