“It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.”

—  Diogenes of Sinope

Stobaeus, iii. 3. 51
Quoted by Stobaeus

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ancient Greek philosopher, one of the founders of the Cynic… -404–-322 BC

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