Just as the good physician should go and offer his services where the sick are most numerous, so, said [ Diogenes], the man of wisdom should take up his abode where fools are thickest in order to convict them of their folly and reprove them. (Dio Chrysostom)

Just as the good physician should go and offer his services where the sick are most numerous, so, said [ Diogenes], the man of wisdom should take up his abode where fools are thickest in order to convict them of their folly and reprove them.

Dio Chrysostom

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