"He was breakfasting in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of "dog." "It is you who are dogs," cried he, "when you stand round and watch me at my breakfast.""
Diogenes of Sinope

January 1, 1970

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Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 61

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