In the first place, my friend, where are you from?

Everywhere.

What do you mean?

You see before you a citizen of the world.

And who is your model?

Herakles.

Then why don't you wear the lion-skin, too? You are like him as far as the club goes.

This is my lion-skin, my threadbare coat. Like him, I make war on pleasures; not under orders, but of my own will, deliberately choosing to purify life.

A noble choice! But just what are we to understand that you know? What art are you master of?

I am the liberator of mankind and the physician of their passions; but, above all, I wish to be the prophet of truth and free speech.