Timon represents him as
desiring to escape from the tedious philosophical discussions of
his time--
[Greek:
o geron o Purrhon, pos e pothen ekdusin heures
latreies doxon te kenophrosunes te sophiston;]
and again he speaks of his modest and tranquil life--
[Greek:
touto moi, o Purrhon, himeiretai etor akousai
pos pot' aner et' ageis panta meth' hesuchies
mounos d'anthropoisi theou tropon hegemoneueis
..... pheista meth' hesuchies
aiei aphrontistos kai akinetos kata tauta
me prosech' indalmois hedulogou sophies.][1]
Pyrrho wished more than anything else to live in peace, and his
dislike of the Sophists[2] may well have made him try to avoid
dialectic; while, on the contrary, in the Pyrrhonean School of
later times discussion was one of the principal methods of
contest, at least after the time of Agrippa. Pyrrhonism seems to
have been originally a theory of life, like the philosophy of
Socrates, to whom Pyrrho is often compared,[3] and Pyrrho, like
Socrates, lived his philosophy. Our knowledge of Pyrrho is
gained from Aristocles, Sextus Empiricus, and Diogenes, and from
the Academic traditions given by Cicero. Diogenes gives us
details of his life which he attributes to Antigonus of
Carystius, who lived about the time of Pyrrho.[4] Pyrrho was a
disciple and admirer of Democritus,[5] some of whose teachings
bore a lasting influence over the subsequent development of
Pyrrhonism.
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