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claimed that Monimus held three beggar's wallets instead of one; this may have been intended to imply that Monimus was three times as much of a Cynic as others, or might have been a satire implying that he was more fond of money than was considered proper for a Cynic philosopher.
275:, Monimus also said that "it was better to lack sight than education, because under the first affliction, you fall to the ground, under the latter, deep underground," and he also said that "Wealth is the vomiting of Fortune." 248:
because they "compared existing things to a scene-painting and supposed them to resemble the impressions experienced in sleep or madness." Monimus was famous for saying that "everything is vanity"(τῦφος,
219:, Diogenes' master. In order that he might become the pupil of Diogenes, Monimus feigned madness by throwing money around until his master discarded him. Monimus also became acquainted with 267:
There is obvious truth to the Cynic Monimus' statement that 'all is opinion'; and obvious, too, is the usefulness of this statement if a man profits from it insofar as it is true.
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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, trans. Maxwell Staniforth. §2.15
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According to Diogenes Laërtius, Monimus wrote two books:
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Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 83; compare Marcus Aurelius,
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Monimus (general)

Syracuse, Sicily
Ancient philosophy
Ancient Greek philosophy
School
Cynicism
Problem of the criterion
/ˈmɒnɪməs/
Greek
Syracuse
Magna Graecia
Cynic
Diogenes Laërtius
Corinthian
money-changer
Diogenes of Sinope
Xeniades
Crates of Thebes
Menander
Sextus Empiricus
abolished the criterion
Anaxarchus
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Stobaeus
spoudogeloia
Clement of Alexandria

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