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+===== Diogenes Laertius, Book 7 §2 =====
+<blockquote>[Zeno] was a pupil of Crates, as stated above. Next they say he attended the lectures of **Stilpo** and Xenocrates for ten years – so Timocrates says in his Dion – and Polemo as well. It is stated by Hecato and by Apollonius of Tyre in his first book on Zeno that he consulted the oracle to know what he should do to attain the best life, and that the god's response was that he should take on the complexion of the dead. Whereupon, perceiving what this meant, he studied ancient authors. Now the way he came across Crates was this. He was shipwrecked on a voyage from Phoenicia to Peiraeus with a cargo of purple. He went up into Athens and sat down in a bookseller's shop, being then a man of thirty.
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+[[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Eminent_Philosophers/Book_VII#Dionysius|Source]] </blockquote>
+===== Plutarch, On Tranquility of the Mind 6.468a =====
+<blockquote>Just as the licentiousness of his daughter did not prevent **Stilpo** from leading the most cheerful life of all the philosophers of his time; on the contrary, when Metrocles reproached him, he asked, "Is this my fault or hers?" And when Metrocles replied, "Her fault, but your misfortune," he said, "What do you mean? Are not faults also slips?" "Certainly," said Metrocles. "And are not slips also mischances of those who have slipped?" Metrocles agreed. "And are not mischances also misfortunes of those whose mischances they are?" By this gentle and philosophic argument he showed the Cynic's abuse to be but idle yapping.
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+[[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/De_tranquillitate_animi*.html|Source]]</blockquote>
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