... mas, concentrando-nos, agora, nos Cínicos:

Diógenes de Sinope

"It is hard to compile a list of Cynic beliefs as their writings were few and none have survived, and they were in any way confortable with self-contradiction, having no time for dogma or rule books. All we have are the testimonies, usually either bewildered or amused, of others. Typically, however, Cynics mixed austerity in their personal habits with a refreshingly experimental approach to life. (...) The good life required escaping the false prison of social expectations, the tuphos (humbug). A well-known story has Diogenes of Sinope, a leading light of early Cynicism, masturbating in public, capping his performance with the witticism "if only it were possible to relieve hunger so easily".(Battling The Gods: Atheism In The Ancient World - Tim Whitmarsh)