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Wise Words -
08-19-2009, 04:54 PM
Diogenes of Sinope...most famous quote: "the art of being a slave is to rule one's master".
Diogenes made a virtue of extreme poverty. When Alexander the Great met Diogenes for the first time, he asked the philosopher if he wished to have anything...Diogenes replied, could you stand out of my sunlight...
He lived a simple yet remarkable life as a beggar become philosopher...and believed to have died from either holding his breath, eating raw octopus or a dog bite...
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