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[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 132 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (14 children)

He's also the one who told the Emperor to move out of his sunlight.

Man, what a guy.

Alexander the Great comes up to you and says "if I was not me, I wish I were you" and your response is "If I wasn't myself, I'd still wish to be myself".

Unfathomably based.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 127 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Diogenes was captured by pirates while on voyage to Aegina and sold as a slave ... Being asked his trade, he replied that he knew no trade but that of governing men, and that he wished to be sold to a man who needed a master.

Fucking savage.

[–] Gigan@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Goddamn. Is there a list of Diogenes quotes? I've heard a couple but this one was new to me.

[–] gbuttersnaps@programming.dev 43 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

My favorite is when he got caught masturbating in public and responded with "If only it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly." Or when Plato was teaching a class and defined a man as a featherless biped, and Diogenes brought a plucked chicken to the class and said "Behold, Plato's man!"

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