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Diogenes of Sinope on Philosophy

412 BC–323 BC Greece

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Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world."

Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.

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