XXII. Diogenes was angry with critics that were nice of words and not of their own actions; with musicians, that tune their instruments but could not govern their passions; with astrologers, that have their eyes in the sky, and look not at their own goings; with orators, that study to speak well but not to do well; with covetous men, that take care to get but never use their estates; with those philosophers that despise greatness, and yet court great men; and with those that sacrifice for health, and yet surfeit themselves with eating their sacrifices. One time, discoursing of the nature, pleasure, and reward of virtue, and the people not regarding what he said, he fell a singing, at which every one pressed to hear; whereupon he cried out, in abhorrence of their stupidity, "O God, how much more is the world in love with folly than with wisdom!" Seeing a man sprinkling himself with water after having done some ill thing, "Unhappy man," saith he, "dost thou not know that the errors of life are not to be washed away with water?" To one who said, "Life is an ill thing;" he answered, "Life is not an ill thing, but an ill life is an ill thing." He was very temperate, for his bed and his table he found everywhere. One seeing him wash herbs, said, "If thou hadst followed Dionysius, king of Sicily, thou wouldst not have needed to have washed herbs;" he answered, "If thou hadst washed herbs, thou needest not to have followed Dionysius." He lighted a candle at noon, saying, "I look for a man;" implying that the world was darkened by vice, and men effeminated. To a luxurious person, that had wasted his means, supping upon olives; "If," saith he, "thou hadst used to dine so, thou wouldst not have needed to sup so." To a young man, dressing himself neatly; "If this," saith he, "be for the sake of men, thou art unhappy; if for women, thou art unjust." Another time, seeing an effeminate young man; "Art thou not ashamed," saith he, "to use thyself worse than nature hath made thee? She hath made thee a man, but thou wilt force thyself to be a woman." To one that courted a bad woman; "O wretch!" said he, "what meanest thou to ask for that which is better lost than found?" To one that smelled of sweet unguents, "Have a care," saith he, "that this perfume make not thy life stink." He compared covetous men to such as have the dropsy; those are full of money, yet desire more; these of water, yet thirst for more. Being asked what beasts were the worst; "In the field," saith he, "bears and lions; in the city, usurers and flatterers." At a feast, one giving him a great cup of wine, he threw it away: for which being blamed, "If I had drunk it," saith he, "not only the wine would have been lost, but I also." One asking him how he might order himself best, he said, "By reproving those things in thyself which thou blamest in others." Another demanding what was the hardest, he answered, "To know ourselves; to whom we are partial."