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hemlock without being harmed, while Lysis once took four of poppy
juice without pain. 82. And Demophon, Alexander's table-servant, used
to shiver when he was in the sun or a bath-house, and got warmed up
in the shade ....
- Since there is so much variation in the bodies of men ... it is
likely that men also differ from each other with respect to their souls.
For the body [provides] a kind of impression of the soul, as is shown by
[the science of] physiognomy. And the greatest demonstration of the great
and boundless difference among the intellects of men is the disagreement
among the utterances of the dogmatists, especially that concerning what
it is fitting to choose and what to avoid .... - So since choice and avoidance depend on pleasure and displeasure,
and pleasure and displeasure depend on sense-perception and presenta-
tion, when some people choose and some avoid the same things, it follows
that we should reason that they are not moved in the same way by the
same things, since [if they were] they would choose or avoid the same
things. But if the same things move men differently, as a result of the
differences among men, it is reasonable on this basis too to introduce
suspension of judgement, since each of us is able to say, perhaps, what
each external object appears like relative to each difference [in us], but
is not capable of pronouncing on what each thing is in its nature. 88.
For either we shall have confidence in all men or in some. But if in all
we shall be undertaking impossibilities and admitting opposing state-
ments. But if in some, let them tell us to whom we are supposed to give
assent. For the Platonist will say [we should assent] to Plato, the Epicurean
to Epicurus, and the others analogously, and so being in an undecidable
conflict they will induce suspension of judgement in us. 89. He who says
that one should assent to the majority is making a childish proposal,
since no one can survey all men and calculate what the majority believe.
For it is possible that, among some peoples of whom we are not aware,
the things which are rare in our experience apply to the majority of men
and the things which affect most of us are rare for them ... So it is also
necessary to introduce suspension of judgement because of the differences
among men. - Since the dogmatists, being a self-satisfied lot, say that one ought
to prefer themselves over other men when it comes to making judgements
on things, we know that their claim is absurd (for they themselves are
a party to the disagreement; and if they decide in favour of themselves
and then judge the appearances, they are seizing on the subject under
investigation before they make their judgement, by assigning the [task
of making] the judgement to themselves). 91. But still, in order to arrive
at suspension of judgement by applying the argument to one man, for