He himself was not so anxious to explain his opinion on Fate and Providence in a single book; however, his excellent doctrine is clear from his honey-sweet dialogues, such as the one he called the Timaeus or On Nature, the one he wrote On Laws, and others.

What he initiated in them, however, was later most happily perfected by

XENOCRATES,

Laërtius, book 4, in his Life.

son of Agathenor, of Chalcedon, who was always of a most firm and faithful spirit toward Plato. A man so conspicuous for his praise of continence and his pursuit of virtue that the Athenians did not hesitate to accept him as a witness without an oath; although the same people soon sinned most gravely against him and philosophy when they sold him into slavery. Whether this happened by Fate or the wickedness of his own people, he was able to explain more thoroughly in the book he wrote On Fate. The same man, as an octogenarian, met a violent Fate, as is found in an old epigram The same place..

Having once fallen into a brass basin, not cautious enough,
He injured his forehead, and uttering an 'O', he perished.
Xenocrates, that man, who was everything to everyone.