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71), as he enjoys his “tub” greater than Xerxes his palace (Ep. Diog. 37 [Malherbe]). To the goddess Happiness, Diogenes cries out: “I will stay for you, O Happiness, consuming water, consuming water-cress and napping at the floor. And Happiness responded him that this lifestyles is finally now not ponos yet excitement” (Max. Tyr. Diss. three. nine; cf. D. Chr. 6. 6–20, eight. 20–33). Such rules are summed up in a lecture by means of Dio Chrysostom: 158 a lifestyles in accordance with nature Ponoi make themselves ever lesser and more straightforward to undergo, and make one’s pleasures either better and no more destructive every time they ensue with ponoi. yet luxurious makes pains (ponoi) look ever tougher, and dulls and weakens one’s pleasures. For the individual that is often luxuriating and not touches ponos will prove not able to undergo any ache in any respect, and in addition unable to suppose any excitement, now not even the main severe. for this reason the self-controlled lover of ponos … lives a lifestyles that's way more pleasant than his contrary. (3. 83–5) If Dio did certainly bring those phrases to Trajan, then one has the intense scene of a one-time Cynic attempting to educate not only anyone, however the king of the realm himself, within the inspiration that the usual “ascetic” is the real “hedonist” and that one might be sturdy and satisfied in simple terms via dwelling right here and now. it appears specifically for later figures like Dio, Epictetus, Demonax and Peregrinus, such education was once one of many perfect Cynic’s ponoi: the Cynic “works” like Heracles ridding the land of evils, or “toils” just like the solar bringing gentle to mankind (D. Chr. three. 73–5). sunlight, hero, Cynic, king: in all instances, Dio generalizes, “the better clearly govern and take care of the weaker” (305). if this is the case, now we have come complete circle from Callicles’ harsh Machtpolitik: the powerful Cynic “king” doesn't “rule” others for his personal curiosity basically, yet endures and teaches asceticism for his or her betterment. he's prompted via philanthrōpia, the top advantage made attainable through a traditional existence. merely these free of fake wishes can really “love” others. Such principles can have been operative on the demise of Peregrinus, while he sought to coach mankind that demise isn't an evil. during this ultimate ponos of Peregrinus, his fellow Cynics in comparison him to Heracles and the sunlight (Luc. De mort. Peregr. 4). within the stated phrases of Theagenes, simply as Phedias’ Zeus and Polycleitus’ Doryphorus have been the perfection of artwork, so Peregrinus was once the perfection of nature (6, 9). 159 cynics Noble savages and the Cynic majority Paragons equivalent to Peregrinus have been infrequent certainly, but the Cynics usually claimed that their principles of the traditional existence weren't theirs merely. Their principles weren't easily the time-honored thoughts of a small team of likeminded philosophers. fairly, those principles belonged to all mankind, and in preaching them the Cynic used to be purely reminding his hearers of truths that they had forgotten. yet different peoples had now not forgotten them, and Cynics can have stumbled on notion within the suggestion that their philosophy was once in truth the main common of all. taking a look prior the small Greek towns to the hinterlands, with their farmers, hunters and fishers, or even farther nonetheless to barbarian lands past, Cynics occasionally surmised that by means of a long way the biggest variety of peoples dwell “according to nature” and that it's the “civilized” Graeco-Roman city-dwellers who're the determined minority.