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“What say you?” comes Antipater's argument on
the other side; “it is your duty to consider the interests of your fellow-men and to serve society; you
were brought into the world under these conditions
and have these inborn principles which you are in duty
bound to obey and follow, that your interest shall be
the interest of the community and conversely that
the interest of the community shall be your interest
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as well; will you, in view of all these facts, conceal
from your fellow-men what relief in plenteous
supplies is close at hand for them?”
“It is one thing to conceal,” Diogenes will perhaps reply; “not to reveal is quite a different thing.
At this present moment I am not concealing from
you, even if I am not revealing to you, the nature of
the gods or the highest good; and to know these
secrets would be of more advantage to you than to
know that the price of wheat was down. But I am
under no obligation to tell you everything that it
may be to your interest to be told.”