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Thursday, July 19, 2018

Diogenes for the Day, 7/19/2018


Still, he was loved by the Athenians. At all events, when a youngster broke up his tub, they gave the boy a flogging and presented Diogenes with another. 

Dionysius the Stoic says that after the Battle of Chaeronea, he was seized and dragged off to Philip of Macedon, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed." For this he was admired and set free.

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