Diogenous Laertiou Peri biōn, dogmatōn kai apophthegmatōn tōn en philosophia eudokimēsantōn biblia 10

from the things which Diogenes brings forward from Epicurus, by hardly one word that would change the sense. But what may be the cause why, when we compare those things which are brought forward by him from Aristotle with the Aristotelian works we possess, we do not everywhere find things that satisfy us, will be a matter for another place to discuss. Furthermore, we must consider that it often occurs in him that which is of a man who has set out to act in good faith. And what is that? It is that, since it often happens that mention must be made of some matter about which he had spoken before, we see him everywhere showing that he is not at all unmindful of those things about which he had written before, when he warns that they have already been spoken of by him. But if, nevertheless, he happens to omit this somewhere, or even does not write the same thing about one and the same matter in both places, this may have happened because he does not follow the same author in both places. But let it be that some ἁμάρτημα μνημονικὸν mnemonic error has slipped in somewhere; who would not forgive that in a more difficult work, when it is granted even in easier works?