To which he replied, "On my face."
"Why?" inquired the other.
"Because," said he, "after a little time down will be converted into up."
This because the Macedonians had now got the supremacy, that is, had risen high from a humble position.
Someone took him into a magnificent house and warned him not to expectorate, whereupon having cleared his throat he discharged the phlegm into the man's face, being unable, he said, to find a meaner receptacle. Others father this upon Aristippus.
One day Diogenes shouted out for men, and when people collected, hit out at them with his stick, saying, "It was men I called for, not scoundrels." This is told by Hecato in the first book of his Anecdotes.
Alexander is reported to have said, "Had I not been Alexander, I should have liked to be Diogenes."
—Diogenes Laërtius, 6.32
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