Aristippus

for Aristippus said it before, and said it better.

Though this is the teaching of Aristippus, and is better and more frankly defended by the Cyrenaics, yet I judge it to be of such a kind that nothing seems more unworthy of man.

And this against Aristippus, who holds that pleasure which we all call by the one name 'pleasure' to be not only the highest but the only good.

And Apis, the king of Argos, founds Memphis, as Aristippus says in the first book of his Arcadica.

And Arete of Cyrene, the daughter of Aristippus, educated Aristippus surnamed the Mother-taught.

To this opinion, evidently, Aristippus of Cyrene too inclined, the sophist who boasted of the truth.

From Aristippus he secured, while still in the bloom of youth, an appointment as general of his mercenaries;

At that time he also sent word to Clearchus to come to him with the entire army which he had, and to Aristippus to effect a reconciliation with his adversaries at home and send him the army which he had;

Again, Aristippus the Thessalian chanced to be a friend of Cyrus, and since he was hard pressed by his political opponents at home, he came to Cyrus and asked him for three months’ pay for two thousand mercenaries, urging that in this way he should get the better of his opponents.

A very cunning trick, that!

The one who is being trained to rule, undoubtedly;

But now let us see how masters treat such servants.

I am slipping to the point of assenting to Epicurus or Aristippus:

'Others have wished pleasure to be the end, of whom the chief was Aristippus, who had heard Socrates — whence the Cyrenaics — afterward Epicurus, whose school is now better known, yet not agreeing with the Cyrenaics about pleasure itself.

And if it is true what Aristo of Chios was wont to say — that the philosophers harm their hearers who interpret well-spoken things ill (for prodigals could come out of the school of Aristippus, sour men out of the school of Zeno) — then plainly, if those who had heard them were going to come away vicious, because they interpreted the philosophers' discourse perversely, it were better for the philo …

Their chief, both in authority and in antiquity, the Socratic Aristippus, did not hesitate to call pain the highest evil.

Diogenes of Sinope, having been cast out of his fatherland, in nothing differing from the very meanest of men, came to Athens, and found there still many of the companions of Socrates—Plato, that is, and Aristippus and Aeschines and Antisthenes and Euclides the Megarian;

They were said to be in Aegina.

Were Aristippus and Cleombrotus there?

1 Aristippus once, delighted with a perfume, said:

Aristippus, in his purple, under a great show of gravity, plays the prodigal;