Diogenes: Drinking Goblet




Diogenes once observed a child drinking from his cupped hands. "In the practice of moderation, a child has become my master," he remarked -- and immediately threw his goblet away.

[Diogenes reportedly later threw away his plate, after encountering another boy with a broken plate eating porridge from a hollowed piece of bread.]

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Diogenes Laertius, Eminent Philosophers


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