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[-] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 134 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

He's also the one who told the Emperor to move out of his sunlight.

Man, what a guy.

Alexander the Great comes up to you and says "if I was not me, I wish I were you" and your response is "If I wasn't myself, I'd still wish to be myself".

Unfathomably based.

[-] clark@midwest.social 46 points 8 months ago

And the time this dialogue took place during that same meeting…

In another account of the conversation, Alexander found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained, "I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave."

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