Wisdom from the Early Cynics, Antisthenes 4

When he was being initiated into the Orphic mysteries, the priest said that those admitted into these rites would be partakers of many good things in Hades. "Why then," said he, "don't you die?" 

Being reproached because his parents were not both free-born, "Nor were they both wrestlers," he said, "but yet I am a wrestler." 

To the question why he had but few disciples he replied, "Because I use a silver rod to eject them." 

When he was asked why he was so bitter in reproving his pupils he replied, "Physicians are just the same with their patients." 

One day upon seeing an adulterer running for his life he exclaimed, "Poor wretch, what peril you might have escaped at the price of an obol!" 

He used to say, as we learn from Hecato in his Anecdotes, that it is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive.

—Diogenes Laërtius, 6.4