replied, “ He who is ambitious of the greatest prosperity.” Being consulted by some one as to whether he should marry—for this story is also told of Bion— he made answer, “‘ If the wife you marry be ugly, she will be your bane; if beautiful, you will not keep her to yourself.’* He called old age the harbour of all ills; at least they all take refuge there. Renown he called the mother of virtues ; beauty another’s good ; wealth the sinews of success. To some one who had devoured his patrimony he said, “The earth swallowed Amphiaraus, but you have swallowed your land.” To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill. He used to condemn those who burnt men alive as if they could not feel, and yet cauterized them as if they could. He used repeatedly to say that to grant favours to another was preferable to enjoying the favours of others. For the latter means ruin to both body and soul. He even abused Socrates, declaring that, if he felt desire for Alcibiades and abstained, he was a fool ; ifhe did not, his conduct was in no way remarkable. The road to Hades, he used to say, was easy to travel ; at any rate men passed away with their eyes shut. He said in censure of Alcibiades that in his boyhood he drew away the husbands from their wives, and as a young man the wives from their husbands. When the Athenians were absorbed in the practice of rhetoric, he taught philosophy at Rhodes. To some one who found fault with him for this he replied, ‘ How can I sell barley when what I brought to market is wheat ? ”’ - He used to say that those in Hades would be more severely punished if the vessels in which they drew water were whole instead of being pierced with