Sublime

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

dans l'Antiquité, un philosophe n'était pas un personnage qui écrivait des ouvrages de philosophie, c'était quelqu'un qui menait une vie de philosophe.