59
When he went to Olympia’and the Eleans voted him a bronze statue, he said: “Don’t do this, men of Elis, for fear you may appear to reflect on yotr ancestors because they did not set up statues either to Socrates or to Diogenes.”
60
I once heard him say to..., the lawyer, that in all likelihood the laws were of no use, whether framed for the bad or the good; for the latter had no need of laws, and the former were not improved by them.
61
From Homer the one line he most frequently quoted was: Idler or toiler,’ tis all one to Death.’ Iliad 9, 320.
62
He had a good word even for Thersites, calling him a mob-orator of the Cynic type.
63
When he was once asked which of the philosophers he liked, he said: “They are all admirable, but for my part I revere Socrates, I wonder at Diogenes, and I love Aristippus.”
