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“When a man reproached him for going into unclean places, he said, "The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them."”
Provenance
- Source:
- Diogenes. vi.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- dad63ddb6f42e08a07bcde8f3217ccbe171dbe08e4eb2f937c2d9d99c071979e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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