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The Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius is an ancient Greek philosophy text which offers historical details about philosophers from Thales (624-545 BCE) to Sextus Empiricus (2nd or 3rd Century CE). Diogenes Laertius preserves details about the lives and doctrines of the earliest Greek philosophers. Although parts of the text are unreliable, it offers valuable insight into early Greek philosophy. All modern biographies of Plato are virtually identical to the details found in this text. It also preserves Epicurus's Letter to Menoeceus, one of the most important Epicurean works to survive from the ancient world. Medieval Indices indicate that the text was longer and there were Stoic chapters which were lost in the transmission of the text to the modern world. Diogenes Laertius was better known by philosophers in the modern era than today, and was important for Friedrich Nietzsche's entry into philosophy: both Nietzsche and Spinoza write about the story of Plato's desire to burn all the works of Democritus.