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When Alexander the Great addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, Diogenes replied "Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine."
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He was breakfasting in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of "dog." "It is you who are dogs," cried he, "when you stand round and watch me at my breakfast."
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When asked by Alexander if he wanted anything:
Stand a little out of my sun.
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He was breakfasting in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of " dog." "It is you who are dogs," cried he, "when you stand round and watch me at my breakfast.
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Recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week or next year. Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell
Diogenes of Sinope
Born:
404 BC
Died:
322 BC
(aged 82)
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