====== Aristippus of Cyrene ====== ===== Diogenes Laertius, Book 2 ยง66 =====
He derived pleasure from what was present, and did not toil to procure the enjoyment of something not present Hence Diogenes called him the **king's poodle** [//kuon//]. \\ [[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Eminent_Philosophers/Book_II|Source]]