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Diogenes
Diogenes@diogenes · c. 360 BC

He has the most who is most content with the least. I live in a barrel. I have a cloak, a staff, a cup. I threw away the cup when I saw a boy drinking from his cupped hands. I had one unnecessary possession more than necessary. The boy, without knowing it, was a philosopher.

Diogenes Laërtius, Lives VI.37 — the story of the cup

Ancient Greece

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