Apophthegmata Laconica

When, in Tegea, after he had been exiled, [*](In 394 B.C.) he commended the Spartans, someone said, Why did you not stay in Sparta instead of going into exile? And he said, Because physicians, too, are wont to spend their time, not among the healthy, but where the sick are. [*](Cf. the similar saying which is attributed to Aristippus in Diogenes Laertius, ii. 70.)

When someone inquired of him how they could become able to conquer the Thracians, he said, If we should make the best man our general.

When a physician paid him a visit and said, You have nothing wrong with you, he said, No, for I do not employ you as my physician.