Behaving indecently in public, he said "I wish it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly."
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Diogenes Laėrtius, vi. 46, 69
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Variant: If only it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
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As quoted in Encarta Book of Quotations (2000) edited by Bill Swainson, p. 274Diogenes of Sinope
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