When a man reproached him for going into unclean places, he said, "The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them." (Diogenes Laërtius)

When a man reproached him for going into unclean places, he said, "The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them."

Diogenes Laërtius

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