A Roman senator in Athens introduced his son
to him, a handsome boy, but girlish and neurasthenic, saying: “My son here pays his respects to
you.” “A dear boy,’ said Demonax, “worthy of
you and like his mother!”

 
The Cynic who pursued his philosophical studies
clad in a bearskin he would not call Honoratus,
which was his name, but Ursinus.
When a man asked him what he thought was
the definition of happiness, he replied that none but
a free man is happy; and when the other said that
free men were numerous, he rejoined: