Noticing a good-looking youth lying in an exposed position, Diogenes nudged him and cried, "Up, man, up, lest some foe thrust a dart into your back!"
To one who was feasting lavishly he said:
Short-liv'd thou'lt be, my son, by what thou buy'st."
As Plato was conversing about Ideas and using the nouns "tablehood" and "cuphood," Diogenes said, "Table and cup I see; but your tablehood and cuphood, Plato, I can nowise see."
"That's readily accounted for," said Plato, "for you have the eyes to see the visible table and cup; but not the understanding by which ideal tablehood and cuphood are discerned."
On being asked by somebody, "What sort of a man do you consider Diogenes to be?"
"A Socrates gone mad," said Plato.
—Diogenes Laërtius, 6.53-54
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