====== Diogenes of Sinope | Diogenes Laertius, Book 6 §18 ======

<blockquote>Timon finds fault with him for writing so much and calls him a prolific trifler. He died of disease just as **Diogenes**, who had come in, inquired of him, "Have you need of a friend?" Once too **Diogenes**, when he came to him, brought a dagger. And when Antisthenes cried out, "Who will release me from these pains?" replied, "This," showing him the dagger. "I said," quoth the other, "from my pains, not from life."
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Source: Lives of the Eminent Philosophers (1925) by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Robert Drew Hicks </blockquote>