When one day he was gravely discoursing and nobody attended to him, he began whistling, and as people clustered about him, he reproached them with coming in all seriousness to hear nonsense, but slowly and contemptuously when the theme was serious.
He would say that men strive in digging and kicking to outdo one another, but no one strives to become a good man and true.
—Diogenes Laërtius, 6.27
IMAGE: Jerome David, Diogenes (c. 1640)
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