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6110349 No.6110349 [Reply] [Original]

Who was more wise: Diogenes or Alexander?

>> No.6110377

>>6110349
I wouldn't say wisdom is quantifiable

I certainly am more Diogenes than Alexander though.

>> No.6110410
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6110410

Look at him, sitting there minding his own business and everyone keeps coming up and fucking with him.

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>>6110349
The question you should be asking is who had the bigger empire.

>> No.6110427

>>6110410
>do you even use the public bath?
>he's so ugly!
>your tub a shit
>what are you reading there, dio-kun?

>> No.6110452

>>6110410
I wish I could just haul around a giant pot to sleep in while reading books.

>> No.6110472

>>6110410
>this story about diogenes sitting in front of brothel screaming about how shit whores in there are, people were paying him to stop screaming and as soon as he collected enough he went in to the whore house.
based

>> No.6110477

>>6110410
>Hey Diogenes, Plato told me you are a faggot, is that correct?
>Go away!
>Look, if you take a shower, you get a tripple blowjob, what do you say!
>No! Stop blocking my sun!
>Haha so you really are a faggot!
>Stop bullying me, I'm happy here.
>That's really mature, Diogenes
>Shut up!
>lol C'mon, girls, let's leave the faggot fapping with his old dog
>La la la I'm not hearing you!

>> No.6110512
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>>6110477
i want to become the diogenes of the post-work android sexbot era

>> No.6110524

>>6110349

Diogenes was wiser. Alexander was stupid enough to give praise to Diogenes.

>> No.6110539

>From Life of Diogenes: "Someone took him [Diogenes] into a magnificent house and warned him not to spit, whereupon, having cleared his throat, he spat into the man's face, being unable, he said, to find a meaner receptacle."
> On the indecency of him masturbating in public he would say, "If only it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing my belly."

I look up to this guy.

>> No.6110546

>>6110539
>But some tell this story of Aristippus. Once, he called out, "Holloa, men." And when some people gathered round him in consequence he drove them away with his stick, saying, "I called men, and not dregs."

based Diogenes

>> No.6110556

>>6110349
That barrel house seems really comfy, though.

>> No.6110562

>>6110512
Is that Jeremy Fallon?

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>>6110562
yes

>> No.6110851

>>6110349
>>6110410
That's a big barrel.

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>>6110524
Hahah.

>> No.6110907

the dogs

>> No.6110916

>>6110851
4U

>> No.6110979

>>6110546
how come he wasn't arrested or something

>> No.6111040

>>6110979
He was constantly being punished.

>> No.6111050
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6111050

>tfw diogenes never found an honest man

>> No.6111658

>Alexander then declared, "If I were not Alexander, then I should wish to be Diogenes", to which Diogenes replied, "If I were not Diogenes, I should also wish to be Diogenes."

Alpha as fuck

>> No.6111661

Was Diogenes a true Hegelian?

>> No.6111677

>>6111040
He just didn't give even a single fuck.