![]() Some at all events are vegetarians and drink cold water only and are content with any kind of shelter or tubs, like Diogenes, who used to say that it was the privilege of the gods to need nothing and of god-like men to want but little. Wealth and fame and high birth they despise. ![]() They also hold that we should live frugally, eating food for nourishment only and wearing a single garment. Hence it has been said that Cynicism is a short cut to virtue and after the same pattern did Zeno of Citium live his life.ġ05. For indeed there is a certain close relationship between the two schools. They hold further that “Life according to Virtue” is the End to be sought, as Antisthenes says in his Heracles: exactly like the Stoics. Not by the lyre's twanged strings or flute's trilled notes. Again, to a man who gave a musical recital before him he said:īy men's minds states are ordered well, and households, Anyhow, when somebody showed Diogenes a clock, he pronounced it a serviceable instrument to save one from being late for dinner. So they get rid of geometry and music and all such studies. At least Antisthenes used to say that those who had attained discretion had better not study literature, lest they should be perverted by alien influences.ġ04. They also dispense with the ordinary subjects of instruction. Whate'er of good or ill within our halls is wrought." ![]() And what some assert of Socrates, Diocles records of Diogenes, representing him as saying: “We must inquire into ![]() They are content then, like Ariston of Chios, to do away with the subjects of Logic and Physics and to devote their whole attention to Ethics. But we will go on to append the doctrines which they held in common – if, that is, we decide that Cynicism is really a philosophy, and not, as some maintain, just a way of life. Such are the lives of the several Cynics. ![]()
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