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diogenes_of_sinope:aelian_varia_historia_iii.29

Diogenes of Sinope | Aelian, Varia Historia III.29

<blockquote>Chap. XXIX. Of the Poverty and Pride of Diogenes. Diogenes the Sinopean used to say of himself, that he fulfilled and suffered the imprecations mentioned in the Tragedy, being a Vagabond, destitute of a house, deprived of his country, a Beggar, ill clothed, having his livelihood onely from day to day : And yet he was more pleased with this condition, then Alexander with the command of the whole World, when having conquered the Indians he returned to Babylon.

Source: Thomas Stanley, translator (1665) Claudius Aelianus His Various History</blockquote>

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