that in itself is philosophy." When some one brought a child to him and declared him to be highly gifted and of excellent character, " What need then/' said he, " has he of me ? " Those who say admirable things, but fail to do them, he compared to a harp ; for the harp, like them, he said, has neither hearing nor perception. He was going into a theatre, meeting face to face those who were coming out, and being asked why, " This," he said, " is what I practise doing all my life." Seeing a young man behaving effeminately, " Are you not ashamed," he said, " that your own intention about yourself should be worse than nature's : for nature made you a man, but you are forcing yourself to play the woman." Observing a fool tuning a psaltery, " Are you not ashamed," said he, " to give this wood concordant sounds, while you fail to harmonize your soul with life? " To one who protested that he was ill adapted for the study of philosophy, he said, " Why then do you live, if you do not care to live well ? " To one who despised his father, " Are you not ashamed," he said, " to despise him to whom you owe it that you can so pride yourself?" Noticing a handsome youth chattering in unseemly fashion, " Are you not ashamed," he said, " to draw a dagger of lead from " an ivory scabbard ? Being reproached with drinking in a tavern, " Well," said he, " I also get my hair cut in a barber's shop." Being reproached with accepting a cloak from Antipater, he replied : The gods' choice, gifts are nowise to be spurned. W T hen some one first shook a beam at him and then shouted " Look out," Diogenes struck the man with