The most powerful man in the world offered him anything he wanted. He asked him to move

Diogenes the Cynic lived in a large ceramic jar in Athens, rejecting property, status and convention. When Alexander the Great visited and asked what he could do for him, Diogenes reportedly replied: 'Stand out of my sunlight.' The anecdote became philosophy's most famous demonstration of contempt for power.

— Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers — Book VI, 3rd century CE

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