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Laughing Philosopher. Democritus of Abdera lived to a ripe old age in the fifth century b.c., very possibly because of his disposition. Juvenal, at any rate, wrote that the Greek philoso- pher always laughed at the follies of mankind. This distin- guished him from the melancholy and aloof Heraclitus, who lived at about the same time and was called the Weeping Philos- opher because man’s follies made him sad. See weeping philosopher. |