An idea from Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

“Man is the measure of all things” was how Protagoras opened one book, and another began by saying he couldn’t know whether the gods exist. The story is that Athens exiled him and burned his books in the market. Scholars now doubt that it happened.

From Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

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