Some authors affirm that the following also belongs to him: that Plato saw him washing lettuces, came up to him and quietly said to him, "Had you paid court to Dionysius, you wouldn't now be washing lettuces," and that he with equal calmness made answer, "If you had washed lettuces, you wouldn't have paid court to Dionysius."
When some one said, "Most people laugh at you," his reply was, "And so very likely do the asses at them; but as they don't care for the asses, so neither do I care for them."
One day observing a youth studying philosophy, he said, "Well done, Philosophy, that you divert admirers of bodily charms to the real beauty of the soul."
—Diogenes Laërtius, 6.58
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