"If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes."
— Diogenes of Sinope

January 1, 1970

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Alexander the Great, in Plutarch's Lives, as translated by John Langhorne and William Langhorne (1859), p. 469. Cf. Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 31