Antisthenes: Mean

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“Antisthenes … said once to a youth from Pontus who was on the point of coming to him to be his pupil, and was asking him what things he wanted, "You want a new book, and a new pen, and a new tablet;" - meaning a new mind.”

Antisthenes

§ 4
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius

Books , Youth

“There is no work so mean, but it would amply serve me to furnish me with sustenance.”

Antisthenes

iv. 35
From Symposium by Xenophon