"He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, 'To get practice in being refused.'"
— Diogenes Laërtius (circa 3rd century CE) "Diogenes," Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, book 6, paragraph 49, as translated by Robert Drew Hicks
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| Diogenes by John William Waterhouse (1882) |
