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When people laughed at him because he walked backward beneath the portico, he said to them: "Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?"
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Diogenes of Sinope
Born:
404 BC
Died:
322 BC
(aged 82)
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