Diogenes for the Day, 6/30/2018

And he would wonder that the grammarians should investigate the ills of Odysseus, while they were ignorant of their own. 

Or that the musicians should tune the strings of the lyre, while leaving the dispositions of their own souls discordant. 

Or that the mathematicians should gaze at the sun and the moon, but overlook matters close at hand. 

Or that the orators should make a fuss about justice in their speeches, but never practice it.

Or that the avaricious should cry out against money, while being inordinately fond of it.