For what solemn thing have you produced in your philosophizing? Who among the very earnest has stood free of imposture? Diogenes, who plumed himself on self-sufficiency by boasting of his jar, was seized by a bowel disorder through eating a raw octopus, and died because of his intemperance. Aristippus, walking about in a purple robe, lived a dissolute life with an air of respectability. Plato, the philosopher, was sold by Dionysius on account of his gluttony. And Aristotle, who ignorantly set a limit to Providence and circumscribed happiness within the things that pleased him, very ignorantly flattered the youth Alexander, forgetting that he was a mere boy; and that man, quite in the Aristotelian manner, shut up his own friend, because he refused to do obeisance to him, and carried him about like a bear or a leopard. So indeed he obeyed the doctrines of his teacher, displaying his manliness and virtue at banquets, running his intimate and dearest friend through with a spear, and then weeping and starving himself on the pretext of grief, that he might not be hated by his own people. I could laugh too at those who to this day make use of his doctrines: who, saying that things below the moon are without Providence, yet being themselves nearer the earth than the moon and lower than its course, provide for the things they call un-provided-for. And among those in whom there is no beauty, no wealth, no bodily strength, no noble birth, among these, according to Aristotle, there is no happiness. Let such men be the philosophers!