• I was born in Sinope, on the Black Sea, in 412 BCE.
  • My father was a magistrate accused of “defacing the currency”, resulting in me being forced into poverty.
  • I found that this enabled me to live in accordance with my belief in entire self-sufficiency.
  • I spent a wandering life begging my way and sleeping in the open in any such shelter I could find, leading to me being dubbed a “Cynic” in Athens.
  • I died, legend has it, by eating raw cuttlefish in order to prove that cooking it was unnecessary.

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