Diogenes — "I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough."
I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.
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From Diogenes Laertius' 'Lives of Eminent Philosophers'
Date: 3rd century CE
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