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Saturday, August 11, 2018

Diogenes for the Day, 8/11/2018


One day, observing a child drinking out of his hands, Diogenes cast away the cup from his wallet with the words, "A child has beaten me in simplicity of living." 

He also threw away his bowl when, in like manner, he saw a child who had broken his plate taking up his lentils with the hollow part of a morsel of bread.

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