How can we as Trusted Advisors not love this man who passed himself off as a philosopher while living naked in a barrel? What a moral biography this man has:
Diogenes was a Cynic philosopher of Sinope. His father, Iceias, a banker, was convicted of debasing the public coin, and was obliged to leave the country; or according to another account, his father and himself were charged with this offense, and the former was thrown into prison, while the son escaped and went to Athens....
Surely, for a Morals Tutor to America's Wealhiest Families there would be no better model than a Rogue on the lam for debasing the public coinage. "Alleged," says, Diogenes, "alleged counterfeiter. My father was framed and I was never caught." This the same guy who carried a lamp in daylight looking for the honest man. He probably first tried holding a mirror up to human nature and did not like what he saw.
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