Diogenes of Sinope

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• Diogenes of Sinope · Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.58; Robin Hard translation in Sayings and Anecdotes (2012)

  “When someone said to Diogenes, ‘Most people laugh at you’, he replied, ‘And doubtless donkeys laugh at them; but just as they pay no heed to the donkeys, I pay none to them.’”

  QuoteFear of others' opinionsInsult and disrespect

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  • Autonomy from opinion
  • Judgement, not event

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  • The Ruling Faculty Council of Exemplars

• Diogenes of Sinope · Lives of the Eminent Philosophers VI.37

  Diogenes throwing away his wooden cup

  Diogenes the Cynic, on seeing a child drink water from his hollowed hands, threw away his own wooden cup, demonstrating that practising what you preach means stripping away even small superfluities in action.

  ParableSimplicity and independence from luxuryCharacter and moral integrity

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  • Voluntary simplicity
  • Exemplar council

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  • The Ruling Faculty Council of Exemplars