Birth
Born in Sinope
Diogenes was born in Sinope on the Black Sea, a trading city where Greek culture met the margins of the Persian world.
Words
“I am a citizen of the world.”
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Diogenes took philosophy out of the lecture hall and into the street. He slept in a large ceramic jar, owned almost nothing, and confronted Alexander the Great without flinching. His philosophy was radical simplicity: strip away custom, status, and comfort, and what remains is a human being, free. The Cynics who followed him believed that virtue meant living according to nature, and that most of civilization was a distraction from it.
