Kitap 6
2.29
He would praise those who were about to marry and refrained, those who intending to go a voyage never set sail, those who thinking to engage in politics do no such thing, those also who purposing to rear a family do not do so, and those who make ready to live with potentates, yet never come near them after all. He used to say, moreover, that we ought to stretch out our hands to our friends with the fingers open and not closed.Cf. Ecclus. iv. 31 (36) μὴ ἔστω ἡ χείρ σου ἐκτετα μένη εἰς τὸ λαβεῖν καὶ ἐν τῷ ἀποδιδό ναι συνεστ αλμένη, let not thine hand be stretched out to receive, and shut when thou shouldest repay. MenippusMenagius, followed by Hübner, on the authority of Ambrosius, reads Hermippus; for among the works of Menippus enumerated by Laertius below (§ 101) there is no mention of a Sale of Diogenes. in his Sale of Diogenes tells how, when he was captured and put up for sale, he was asked what he could do. He replied, Govern men. And he told the crier to give notice in case anybody wanted to purchase a master for himself. Having been forbidden to sit down, It makes no difference, said he, for in whatever position fishes lie, they still find purchasers.
