Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Self-Criticism
Diogenes Laertius 7.171 (on Cleanthes; tr. R.D. Hicks):
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He would often find fault with himself too, and one day when Ariston heard him doing this and asked, "Who is it you are scolding so?" he, laughing, said, "An old man with grey hairs and no wits."
πολλάκις δὲ καὶ ἑαυτῷ ἐπέπληττεν· ὧν ἀκούσας Ἀρίστων, "τίνι," ἔφη, "ἐπιπλήττεις;" καὶ ὃς γελάσας, "πρεσβύτῃ," φησί, "πολιὰς μὲν ἔχοντι, νοῦν δὲ μή."
