![]() ![]() One day, observing a child drinking out of his hands, he cast away the cup from his wallet with the words, "A child has beaten me in plainness of living.".To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders.".When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves.". ![]()
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