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The Sale of Lives (8)

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Buyer

In the first place, my friend, where are you from?

Diogones

Everywhere.

Buyer

What do you mean?

Diogones

You see before you a citizen of the world.

Buyer

And who is your model?

Diogones

Herakles.

Buyer

Then why don't you wear the lion-skin, too? You are like him as far as the club goes.

Diogones

This is my lion-skin, my threadbare coat. Like him, I make war on pleasures; not under orders, but of my own will, deliberately choosing to purify life.

Buyer

A noble choice! But just what are we to understand that you know? What art are you master of?

Diogones

I am the liberator of mankind and the physician of their passions; but, above all, I wish to be the prophet of truth and free speech.

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