My parents weren't wrestlers. I'm a wrestler anyway.
Antisthenes, Diogenes Laertius 6.4
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Antisthenes, Diogenes Laertius 6.4
"My parents weren't wrestlers. I'm a wrestler anyway." Antisthenes said it in Diogenes Laertius 6.4. Translated from the original Greek by Spartan Surfers.
"οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐκ δύο, ἔφη, παλαιστικῶν, ἀλλὰ παλαιστικός εἰμι."Original Greek, Diogenes Laertius 6.4. Greek: Hicks 1925 Loeb text via Perseus; Reply to a jibe that his parents were not both free-born Athenians.
Antisthenes (c. 446–366 BC). Student of Socrates and forerunner of the Cynics.
My parents weren't wrestlers. I'm a wrestler anyway.
Antisthenes, Diogenes Laertius 6.4
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