An idea from Parallel Lives

Alexander finds Diogenes lying in the sun and asks if he wants anything. Yes, comes the reply: “I would have you stand from between me and the sun.” Walking away, Alexander says, as the story goes, “that if he were not Alexander, he would choose to be Diogenes.”

From Parallel Lives by Plutarch

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