his staff and added " Look out." To a man who was urgently pressing his suit to a courtesan he said, " Why, hapless man, are you at such pains to gain your suit, when it would be better for you to lose it ? " To one with perfumed hair he said, " Beware lest the sweet scent on vour head cause an ill odour in your life." He said that bad men obey their lusts as servants obey their masters. The question being asked why footmen are so called, he replied, " Because they have the feet of men, but souls such as you, my questioner, have." He asked a spendthrift for a mina. The man inquired why it was that he asked others for an obol but him for a mina. " Because," said Diogenes, " I expect to receive from others again, but whether I shall ever get anything from you again lies on the knees of the gods." Being reproached with begging when Plato did not beg, " Oh yes," says he, " he does, but when he does so He holds his head down close, that none may hear." a Seeing a bad archer, he sat down beside the target with the words " in order not to get hit." Lovers, he declared, derive their pleasures from their misfortune. Being asked whether death was an evil thing, he replied, " How can it be evil, when in its presence we are not aware of it ? " When Alexander stood opposite him and asked, " Are you not afraid of me ? " " Why, what are you ? " said he, " a good thing or a bad ? " Upon Alexander replying " A good thing," " Who then," said Diogenes, " is afraid of the good ? " Education, according to him, is a controlling grace to the young, consolation to the