Ancient Greek philosopher: Heraclitus
Heraclitus was born in Ephesus. He belonged to an aristocratic family but refused to have a political life. His writing style is unusual, in that many of the surviving fragments are written in short and often cryptic phrases. He was known as the "weeping philosopher". He was also referred to as "the riddler" or "the obscure one", due to the puzzling nature of his writings, as well as "the mocker" or "the reviler of the mob", due to his dislike for those who were not open-minded. Heraclitus has a huge contempt for humanity and politics. Therefore, towards the end of his life he left the city and went to live in isolation in the mountains in which he fed on plants and herbs. This caused him to contract dropsy which forced him to return to the city for treatment. He asked the doctors in a riddling way if they could "change a rainstorm into a draught". When they failed to understand him, he buried himself in a byre, thinking that the dropsy would......

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