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And Aristippus every year used to spend whole days with her in Aegina, at the festival of Neptune. And once, being reproached by his servant, who said to him—You give her such large sums of money, but she admits Diogenes the Cynic for nothing; he answered, I give Lais a great deal, that I myself may enjoy her, and not that no one else may. And when Diogenes said, "Since you, O Aristippus, cohabit with a common prostitute, either, therefore, become a Cynic yourself, as I am, or else abandon her;" Aristippus answered him—Does it appear to you, O Diogenes, an absurd thing to live in a house where other men have lived before you.? Not at all, said he. Well, then, does it appear to you absurd to sail in a ship in which other men have sailed before you By no means, said he. Well, then, replied Aristippus, it is not a bit more absurd to be in love with a woman with whom many men have been in love already.
