Antisthenes held doctrines strikingly similar to Tolstoy regarding society and simplicity

Evidence

The first of these schools is derived, through its founder Diogenes, from Antisthenes, a disciple of Socrates, about twenty years older than Plato. Antisthenes was a remarkable character, in some ways rather like Tolstoy. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 952

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 952