“Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry.”

— Diogenes Laërtius

Diogenes, 4 (note that this is Diogenes of Sinope).
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 6: The Cynics

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