To the youth who was posing fantastically as an artist's model he put this question, "Tell me, if the bronze could speak, on what, think you, would it pride itself most?"
"On its beauty," was the reply.
"Then," said he, "are you not ashamed of delighting in the very same quality as an inanimate object?"
When a young man from Pontus promised to treat him with great consideration as soon as his boat with its freight of salt fish should arrive, he took him and an empty wallet to a flour-dealer's, got it filled, and was going away.
When the woman asked for the money, "The young man will pay," said he, "when his boatload of salt fish arrives."
—Diogenes Laërtius, 6.9
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