![]() ![]() You will look simply foolish and can I ask you, why are you taking so much trouble conquering the world? You call me strange, someone who is just having a beautiful sunbath. And have you ever considered if you succeed In conquering this world, what are you going to do next? because there is no other world than this. Now don’t waste time, because life is short and the world is big you may die before you conquer it. I could not resist the temptation to come and see.’ĭiogenes said, “You have seen me. I am going to conquer the world, and I heard you are just residing here. Only people who suffer from inferiority pretend to be great the greater the inferiority the more they start projecting themselves higher, bigger, vaster.”īut he said to Alexander, “What is the point of your coming to me? A poor man, a nobody, whose only possession is a lamp, whose only companion in this whole world is a dog, who lives naked For what have you come here?”Īlexander said, “I have heard many stories about you, and now I can see that all those stories are bound to be real you are certainly a strange man, but in a way immensely beautiful. That is a sure sign of an inferiority complex. He bypassed the insult.ĭiogenes said, ‘ ‘My God.” He looked at the dog and said, “Did you hear that?”-that was his constant habit, to refer to the dog- “Did you hear that? This man thinks himself the greatest man in the world. Still, Alexander tried to make some conversation. ![]() Now what to do with such idiots? You tell me.” The fact is, he himself does not know who he is. He looked at the dog who was sitting by his side and said, “Listen to what this stupid man is saying. Asked why he had made a dog a friend, he said, “Because I could not find a man worth making a friend.” So he said, “Perhaps you are unaware of the person who has come to meet you.”ĭiogenes laughed. He also felt embarrassed because this was the first time that somebody had continued to lie down in front of him “Perhaps the man does not know who I am.” Alexander felt a little awkward because Diogenes was naked. ![]() Diogenes was lying on the sand on the bank of the river taking a sunbath. It was early morning, the sun was rising. He said, “I would like to go and meet him.” So many stories about Diogenes, Alexander had heard and had loved. ![]()
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