When one of his friends said: “Demonax, let’s
go to the Aesculapium and pray for my son,” he
replied: “You must think Aesculapius very deaf,
that he can’t hear our prayers from where we
are!”

 

On seeing two philosophers very ignorantly debating a given subject, one asking silly questions and
the other giving answers that were not at all to the
point, he said: ‘“Doesn’t it seem to you, friends,
that one of these fellows is milking a he-goat and
the other is holding a sieve for him!”