====== Antisthenes of Athens | Apuleius, Apologia 22 ======


<blockquote>You reproach philosophers for their staff and wallet. You might as well reproach cavalry for their trappings, infantry for their shields, standard-bearers for their banners, triumphant generals for their chariots drawn by four white horses and their cloaks embroidered with palm-leaves. The staff and wallet are not, it is true, carried by the Platonic philosophers, but are the badges of the Cynic school. To Diogenes and **Antisthenes** they were what the crown is to the king, the cloak of purple to the general, the cowl to the priest, the trumpet to the augur.
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Source: The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of
Madaura, by Lucius Apuleius\\
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