I like the sound of him.

Mar 22, 2007 01:57

Diogenes of Sinope (c. 412BC - 323BC)

(stolen almost wholesale from Wikipedia)

  • Many anecdotes of Diogenes refer to his doglike behavior, and his praise of a dog's virtues. It is not known whether Diogenes was insulted with the epithet "doggish" and made a virtue of it, or whether he first took up the dog theme himself. The modern terms cynic and ( Read more... )
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    annihilatenow March 22 2007, 20:24:39 UTC
    He sounds like a very screwed-on bloke. Why don't we have people like that any more?

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