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[3] He was the first to define statement (or assertion) by saying that a statement is that which sets forth what a thing was or is. He used repeatedly to say,
I’d rather be mad than feel pleasure, and
We ought to make love to such women as will feel a proper gratitude. When a lad from Pontus was about to attend his lectures, and asked him what he required, the answer was,
Come with a new book, a new pen, and new tablets, if you have a mind to (implying the need of brains as well).
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When someone inquired what sort of wife he ought to marry, he said,
If she’s beautiful, you’ll not have her to yourself; if she’s ugly, you’ll pay for it dearly. Being told that Plato was abusing him, he remarked,
It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.
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Vitae philosophorum. Diogenes Laertius. R. D. Hicks (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1925.
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