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Friday, June 22, 2018

Diogenes for the Day, 6/23/2018


He asked a spendthrift for a mina. The man inquired why it was that he asked others only for an obol, but from him so much more as a mina. 

"Because," said Diogenes, "I expect to receive from others again, but whether I shall ever get anything from you again lies on the knees of the gods."

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