His eyes acquired some vivacity when they rested on his books, and he smiled when he gazed at the Diogenes Laertius, which was a unique copy.

当他注视他那些书籍时，他的眼睛总是神采奕奕的，在端详那本第欧根尼·拉尔修的作品时，他总面带微笑。

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And the third is a work by Diogenes Laertius who wrote the lives of great philosophers with lots of little snippets describing their interesting lives and deaths.

第三个是拉尔修的作品，他用零星语言记录下哲人们的伟大生活，描述哲人们有趣的生活和他们的去世。

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For many of these ancient philosophers all we know about them is a few snippets in Diogenes Laertius and given that kind of story you can see that we cannot view them with tremendous authority.

我们对许多古代哲人的了解，都是通过拉尔修的零星片段，如果没有那些故事的描述，你会发现我们就无法窥得大量的权威材料。

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