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Ascetic Greek philosopher of the Cynic
school. He believed in freedom and
self-sufficiency for the individual, and that
the virtuous life was the simple life; he did
not believe in social mores. He was born at
Sinope, captured by pirates, and sold as a
slave to a Corinthian named Xeniades, who
appointed Diogenes tutor to his two sons. He
spent the rest of his life in Corinth. He is
said to have carried a lamp during the
daytime, looking for one honest man. The
story of his having lived in a barrel arose
when Seneca said that was where a man so
crabbed ought to have lived. His writings do
not survive.