They did not profess an end apart from their own happiness; they believed and maintained that theirs was the only safe road to happiness.

They agreed with the Cyrenaics as to the end; they differed as to the means.
The founders of the sect, being men of culture, set great store by education, from which, however, they excluded (as it would appear) both the Artistic and the Intellectual elements of the superior instruction of the time, namely, Music, and the Sciences of Geometry, Astronomy, &c.

Plato's writings and teachings were held in low esteem.
Physical training, self-denial and endurance, and literary or Rhetorical cultivation, comprise the items taught by Diogenes when he became a slave, and was made tutor to the sons of his master.
IV .-- As to the Moral Code, the Cynics were dissenters from the received usages of society.

They disapproved of marriage laws, and maintained the liberty of individual tastes in the intercourse of the sexes.

Being free-thinkers in religion they had no respect for any of the customs founded on religion.
V.The collateral relations of Cynical Ethics to Politics and to Theology afford no scope for additional observations.