Strive to become a lover of learning rather than one who has merely learned a great deal.
Σπεῦδε φιλομαθεῖν μᾶλλον ἢ πολυμαθεῖν.

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Porphyry
Born c. 234 in Tyre, Porphyry was a Phoenician Neoplatonist who edited Plotinus into the Enneads. His logic primer Isagoge was the standard textbook of Aristotelian logic in medieval Europe and the Islamic world.
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