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Diogenes

412–323 BC · Greek Cynic Philosopher

Lived in a barrel, owned nothing, and told Alexander the Great to get out of his sunlight. Diogenes walked through Athens in broad daylight holding a lantern, searching for one honest person. He never found one. He stripped away every pretension, every comfort, every social nicety — and what remained was the rawest truth anyone had ever spoken. A Grithosian doesn't dress up reality. They strip it bare.