Key to Easy Latin Stories for beginners/Part I/XI
XI.SAYINGS OF ARISTIPPUS.
67.Once when Aristippus was travelling to Corinth, a great storm arose. Now some one had said, ‘We sailors are afraid of nothing, but you philosophers are afraid of everything.’ Aristippus in reply said, ‘It is not wonderful, for like minds will not perish.’ A certain man had pleaded a case for the same, and had freed him from the accusation. Then he questioned Aristippus in these words: ‘What good have you derived from Socrates?’ To him the philosopher answered: ‘This is what I have derived: you have said many good things about me, and they are true.’