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Ser,
Ser. 32.
Uid.
Ser. 45* Ser. 48.
Ser. 53.
Sea. 53.
Ser. $4.
Ser. 6^. Ser. 66.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ser. 68. Ser. 71.
Ibid.
Sey. 72.
Ser. 77.
Statues of the Mules, but few Auditors, By the help of the Gods^MaJhr., faith hQ^^yon have many Auditors.
To one that asked him how he might order himfelf beft. By reprehending^ faith he, tho/e things in your fe If which you blame in others.
He gave good Counfel to a peribn very dilTo lute i being demanded what he was doing, he anfwered, Wafhing an TEthiopian.
He went backwards into the School of the Stoic As., whereat fome laughing, Are you ajhani" d, laith he,/^? do that in the whole courfe of your life., for which you deride mein walking ?
He laid,' Men provide for their living, but not for their well living.
He faid, it was alhame to fee Wrefllers and Singing-Mafters obferve temperate Diet, and moderate their Pleafures, one for Exercile, the other for his Voice, and yet no man would do fo much for Vertue’s-fake.
He faid, Pride, like a Shepherd, driveth men whither it pleafeth.
Seeing the high Walls of Alegar a,\iz faid,U)?- happy Beople, mind not the height of your Walls, but the height of their Courages, zvho are to fiand on the Walls,
He compared Covetous Men to fuch as have the Dropfie, thofe are full of Money, yet defire more-, thefe have Water, yet thirfi: after more : Paflions grow more inteiife by enjoyment of what they defire.
Seeing a man make Love to an old Rich Wi¬ dows : This Love,l3.kh he, is not blind but tooih- lefs. ^
Being demanded what Beafts were the worft : In the Field, faith he. Bears and Lions -, in the City, Ufurers and Sicophants.
He compared Flattery to an empty Tomb, on which Friendfhip was inferibed.
Blaming Antifihenes for being too remifs in difeourfe, in regard that when he fpoke loudeft, he could hardly be heard, and calling himfelf the Trumpet of Reproof : Antifihenes reply’d, he was like a Bee,t\[^.t makes no great noife,yet flings lharply.
He faid. Reproof is the good of others.
A certain Athenian asking him why he lived not with the Lacedemonians, whom hepraifed fo much : Fhyficians,\^3Xx\\ he,?/^ they jludy Health, converfe wih the Sick.
He faid, other Dogs bark at their Enemies,! my Friends, that I may preler.ve them.
He asked Flato if he were writing Laws : Pla¬ to affirm’d he was.Didyou not write^a Common¬ wealth before, faith Diogenes I I did, anlwers Plato. And had not that Commonwealth Laws, faid he? the other anfweringit had^. To what end reply’d Diogenes, do you write new Laws I
He faid. To give Phyfick to a dead Body, or advife an old Man, k the fame thing ?
To a bald Man that reviled h[m,l will not re¬ turn your Reproaches, faith he, yet cannot com¬ mend your Hair, for leaving fo bad a Head.
To an Informer that fell out with him -, I am glad, faith he, of the enmity betwixt us, for you hurt not your Foes, but your Friends.
To one that reviled him -, No man, faith he will believe you when you fpeak ill of me, no more than they would me, if Ifhould fpeak well of you.
, Alexander fent him a Difh full of Bones with
Ser. 87,
this Meflage,it was meat for Dogs j he anfwered Lea, but not fer a King to fend. ’
He laid, It was the fame fault to give to them that deferved nothing, as not to give to them that do.
Re faid. As Houfes where there is plenty of AXeat, are full of Alice, fo the Bodies of fuch as eat much, are full of D if cafes.
At a Fcall, one giving him a great Cup full of 5,.^ §3 Wine, he threw it away, tor which being blamed.
If 1 had drunk />, faith \\c,not only the Wine would have been lojl, but I alfo
Being demanded what was hardefl, he an- ,3, fwer’d. To know our f elves, for zee confruc mo ft ’ things according to our own Partiality.
He faid, Medea was a wife Woman, and not a WitchjWho by Labour and Exercife corroborated the Bodies of Effeminate Perfons, whence arofe the Fable, that fhe could renew Age.
To one that profefs’d himfelf a P^/7(y2y)/7^'r,s ,2^
but argued litigioully, he faid, the heft part of Philofophy, yet would bethought a Philojopher ? ^
Qubftioning one of thofe young Meii that fob 5 lowedhim, he was filentj whereupon Diogenes,
Do you not think, faith he, it belongs to the fame man to know when to fpeak, and when to hold his peace ?
Being demanded how a rndn fhould live under the Authority of Superiors^ as vi/edo by FirCjiJl faith he, not too near, left it burn -, not too far off, left we freeze.
Seeing fome Women talk privately together ; ser. 182. he faid, Afp borrows Poyfon fromtheViper.
\ Being demanded what was the heavielt burden the Earth bears,he anfwered. An ignorant Man.
An Aftrologer in the Forum, diicourfing to the^jr. an. People, and (hewing them in a Tablet the Erra- tick Stars ; No, faith Diogenes, it is notphe Stars that err, but thefe, pointing to the People.
Being demanded what Men are the moftjer. 2t6i noble: They, faith he. Who contemn Wealth,
Glory, and Pleafure, and over mafier th,e contra¬ ries to thefe. Poverty, Ignominy, Pain, Death.
Seeing the Servants of carrying 5^.
ma ny goods, he demanded to whom they, belong¬ ed ^ they anfwered to Anaximenes. Is he not afhamed, replied Diogenes, to have fo much Hou^ \fhold-ftuff, and yet not be Mafter of himfelf?
He faid, Vertue dwelleth neither in a richCi- s^r. 233,
ty, nor a private Houle.
He faid Poverty is a felf-taught help to Philo- ser. 235. Ibphy j for what Philofophy endeavours to per- fwade by words,Poverty enforceth in praftice.
To a wicked man reproaching him for his verty -, I never knew, faith he, any man punifhed for Poverty, but many for Wickednefs.
He called Poverty a felf inftruRing Virtue,
To one that reproached him with Poverty What mean you,^ laitfi he ? Poverty never made a * Tyrant, Riches many.
Alexander feeing him afleep in his Tub, laid, 5^, OTubfullof Wifdom: The rhilofopher riling
up, anfwerd. Great King,
One drop of Fortune's better far Than Tubs replete with Wifdome are.
To whom a ftander by reply’d.
One drop of Wifdom Fortune's Seas excells-.
In unwife Souls misfortune never dwells.
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Seeing an old Woman painted, JJ this be for the living^ you are deceived^ faith he •, tj for the dead, make haft to them.
To one bewailing his own misfortune, as that he fhould not die in his own Country, Be of com¬ fort^ faith he, the way to the next World is alike
in every place. ' »• 1.
Having a great pain in his flioulder vvhich troubled him much, one faid to him in deriuon, why dofi: thou not die, Diogenes., and free thy fell from this Mifery ? He anfwer’d, // is fit they fhould live who know how to order their Life ; for you voho know not what to do or fa)\ it is a conve¬ nient time to die. ni v
viut. de Exul. He ufed to fay, Ariptle Dineth when Philif> pleafeth hut Diogines when it ipleukth Diogenes.
At Corinth, kemg Dionyfi/sthQ younger, who was depofed from the Kingdom of Sicily, ihis is a Life, faith he, you dejerve not, you merit ra¬ ther not to live here freely and without fear, but at home in perpetual imprifomnent. ^
To feme who commended Llato, he ^fiufVhat hath he done worthy commendation, having pro- fefedPhilofophy fo long, yet never moved any to grief.
To one demanding how he might take the greateft Revenge upon his Enemy, he anlwered. By being Good and Virtuous your felf.
In commending his Matter Antifihenes, he would lay of h\tn,Of Rich,he made me Poor-, and inf ead of a fair Houfe, made me live in a Tub.
Pint, quorum, ger. Refp.
Plut. de vert. Morql.
Plut. and, de Poet.
Mucroh. Sat. 7> 3*
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CHAP. VI.
Mis Writings.
iF the Writings aferibed tohiipiare thefe.
Dialogues. Ichthyas.
The Geayl The Leopard.
The Athenian People. Policy.
Ethick Art.
Of Riches.
Erotick.
Theodorus.
Hypfas. Ariftarchus.
Of Death. Epijlles. Trgedies 7*
r Helena. ^Thyefes. j Hercules. i^Achilles^ Medea.
I Chryfippus. OEdipus.
Softer at es and Satyr us affirm, that none of thefe were written by Diogenes-, the Tragedies Staty- rus aferibes to Phil feus of AEgina,Socion y^xm- eth thele only to have been written by Diogenes.
Of Vertue.
Cephaiw.
Of Good.
Philifeus.
Erotick.
Arifarchus.
The Poor.
Sifiphus.
The Tolerant.
Ganymede.
The Leopard.
Chria's, Cf
Caffander.
Epifles.
CH A P. VII.
His Death.
and was buried by his Sons. As he lay lick, Xeni- ades asked him how he would be buried ^ he an-* fwered, with his Face downward ^ Xenides de¬ manding the reafon, Becaufe, faith he, all things will be turned upfide down -, alluding, faith Laer¬ tius, to the greatnels of the Macedonians, who not long before were a poor inconfiderable Peo¬ ple. Some report, that being near Death, he gave order that his Body fhould be left unburied, that the twild Bealls might partake of him, or be thrown into a Ditch, and a little dull be call over it j or thrown upon a Dung-hill, that he might benefit his Brethren.
JElian faith, that being lick to Death, threw himlelf down fromaBridg which was near the Gymnalium, and ordered the Keeper of the Pale fra to take his Body and throw it into the River lUf'us.
Others affirm he died of a Surfeit of rawflelhj others, that he Hop’d his own Breath -, others, that cutting a Cuttle-filh in pieces to throw it to dogs, it bit afunder a Nerve in his Foot, where¬ of he died.
Others affirm he died as he was going to the Olympick Games : Being taken with a Fever,he lay down by the way, and would not fuffer his friends to carry him; but fitting under thefhade of the next Tree, fpoke thus to them ; This night I fhall be aViSor,orVanquifhed-, if I overcome the Fever, I will come to the Games if not, 1 muf go to the other World, and drive it away by death.
Antifhenes faith, his Friends were of opinion he Hopp’d his own breath ; for coming, as they conHantly uled,to vi fit him in the Cranium where he lived, they found him covered : they did not imagine it was fleep,by reafon of his great wake- fulnefs •, but immediately putting back his Cloak, perceived he was dead. Hereupon there arole a contention amongH them who Hiould bury him ; they fell from words to blows; but theMagi- grates and great ones of the City, came them- lelves and buried him by the Gate, which leads to Ifhmus. Over the Sepulchre they placed a Column, and upon it a Dog, cut out of Parian Stone. Afterwards his own Country-men honou¬ red him with many brazen Statues, bearing this infeription;
Time doth the frongef Brafs decay -, Diogenes, thou ne'er canf dye.
Who to content the ready way To following Ages didf defciy.
Laertius reckons five of this name ; the firf of Apollonia, a Natural Philolbpher.
The fecond a Sicionian.
The third this.
The fourth a Stoick of Seleucia.
The fifth oiTarfis.
He Died, as Demetrius faith, at Corinth about 9)0 years old, the fame day that A- lexander died at Babylon -, which according to Milan was the feventh of Thargelion, in the firll year of the 1 i^th Olympiad.
The manner of his death is varioufly related. Eubulus faith, he lived to his end with Xeniades,
M O N I M U S.
MOnimus was a Syracufian, Difciple to Dio¬ genes ; he was firfl Servant to a Money- Laert. changer, to whom Xeniades who bought Dioge¬ nes, often coming, he was fo taken with the .Worth and Virtue of the Perlbn, that he coun¬ terfeited himfelf Mad, and threw all the Money from off the Table, whereupon his MaHer turn¬ ing him away, he betook himfelf to Diogenes.
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