Diogenes of Sinope lived in a tub in the marketplace. Since it was a long time ago, around the 4th century BCE (before the common era), the details are few. I feel a certain intellectual kinship to Diogenes because I too am a cynic. He must have been a remarkable man, going by the stories told about him.
It is said that he sometimes walked around with a lamp even in broad daylight. When asked why, he replied, “I am looking for an honest man.” A cynic to the …