Once Diogenes, who was washing vegetables, ridiculed him as he passed by, and said, "If you had learnt to eat these vegetables, you would not have been a slave in the palace of a tyrant." But Aristippus replied, "And you, if you had known how to behave among men, would not have been washing vegetables."


Aristippus, 4. - Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers

Diogenes Laërtius Quotes

Once Diogenes, who was washing vegetables, ridiculed him as he passed by, and said, If you had learnt to eat these vegetables, you would not have...

Once Diogenes, who was washing vegetables, ridiculed him as he passed by, and said, If you had learnt to eat these vegetables, you would not have...

Once Diogenes, who was washing vegetables, ridiculed him as he passed by, and said, If you had learnt to eat these vegetables, you would not have...

Once Diogenes, who was washing vegetables, ridiculed him as he passed by, and said, If you had learnt to eat these vegetables, you would not have...