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Diogenes the Cynic
Diogenes the Cynic (c. 412–323 BCE) was a Greek philosopher born in Sinope on the Black Sea, and the best-known figure of the Cynic school. Exiled from his home city, he lived in Athens and Corinth in deliberate poverty, reportedly sleeping in a large jar, and mocked social convention to show that virtue needed only self-sufficiency. Anecdotes about him, including a meeting with Alexander the Great, were collected by Diogenes Laertius.
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