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 ===== Plutarch, On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander 10.331e =====
-<blockquote>But the lyre of Paris gave forth an altogether weak and womanish strain to accompany his love songs." Thus it is the mark of a truly philosophic soul to be in love with wisdom and to admire wise men most of all, and this was more characteristic of Alexander than of any other king. His attitude toward Aristotle has already been stated; and it is recorded by several authors that he considered the musician Anaxarchus the most valuable of all his friends, that he gave ten thousand gold pieces to Pyrrhon60 of Elis the first time he met him, that he sent to Xenocrates,61 the friend of Plato, fifty talents as a gift, and that he made **Onesicritus**, the pupil of Diogenes the Cynic, chief pilot of his fleet.
+<blockquote>But the lyre of Paris gave forth an altogether weak and womanish strain to accompany his love songs." Thus it is the mark of a truly philosophic soul to be in love with wisdom and to admire wise men most of all, and this was more characteristic of Alexander than of any other king. His attitude toward Aristotle has already been stated; and it is recorded by several authors that he considered the musician Anaxarchus the most valuable of all his friends, that he gave ten thousand gold pieces to Pyrrhon of Elis the first time he met him, that he sent to Xenocrates, the friend of Plato, fifty talents as a gift, and that he made **Onesicritus**, the pupil of Diogenes the Cynic, chief pilot of his fleet.
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