Diogenes The Cynic: The War Against The World

by Luis E. Navia

tub and begged for his daily sustenance. Socrates' ascetic uneasiness toward pleasure appeared in Antisthenes as a con- demnation-"I would prefer a state of madness than a life of pleasure" (DL, 6.3; Sextus Empiricus, Adv. math., 11.73).