Diogenes for the Day, 7/20/2018

Cleomenes, in his work entitled Concerning Pedagogues, says that the friends of Diogenes wanted to ransom him, whereupon he called them simpletons.

For, he said, lions are not the slaves of those who feed them, but rather those who feed them are at the mercy of the lions; for fear is the mark of the slave, whereas wild beasts make men afraid of them.