The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death. (Diogenes of Sinope)

The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

Diogenes of Sinope

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