An idea from Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

Diogenes of Sinope owned a cloak, a staff and a food bag, and for a while made a big storage jar his house. He said “the Athenians had built him places to live in,” meaning their public colonnades. Seeing a child drink from cupped hands, he threw his cup away.

From Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

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