“Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "'Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."”

— Diogenes of Sinope

Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 27
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

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ancient Greek philosopher, one of the founders of the Cynic… -404–-322 BC

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