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The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub; and there he had the presumption to command Alexander the haughtiest of all men.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames Treasury of Thought (1881)

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Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.

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