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Diogenes of Sinope

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Philosopher

The Resume

    (circa 413 BC- )
    Left no written works

Why he might be annoying:

    His father, Icesias, was a banker who was exiled for 'debasing the public coin.'
    As a young man, he was obsessed with Antisthenes, and camped outside of his house. Antisthenes wanted nothing to do with him and hit Diogenes over the head with a stick. Diogenese was unfazed and responded: 'Strike me, Antisthenes, but you will never find a stick sufficiently hard to remove me from your presence, while you speak anything worth hearing.'
    When one of his friends failed to find him a place to live, he took up residence a large barrel in the middle of the town.
    He practiced abstinence.
    His nickname was 'the dog.'
    In an act that surely would have irritated him, he was built a lavish marble column by his tomb at Corith, and the residents of Sinope created bronze statues to honor him.

Why he might not be annoying:

    Antisthenes eventually let him into his school.
    Despite the fact that he had almost no wealth, he had enough friends to support him.
    He had amazing self-control.
    While sailing in the Aegian, he was kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Crete. When he was auctioned, he was asked what he was adept at, to which he responded: 'I can govern men; therefore sell me to one who wants a master.' Xeniades was so impressed by this answer that he paid for Diogene's freedom.
    When he was visited by Alexander the Great and offered his heart's desires, he requested Alexander to 'stand between me and the sun' so that he could have a little shade.

Credit: Nihilism Cynicism Sarcasm Orgasm


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