Diogenes once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, ‘To get practice in being refused.’
—Diogenes of Sinope ex Diogenes Laertius,
Lives and opinions of eminent philosophers 6.49
I could have used such practice.
I wasted too much of my life depending upon those things that w…
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