--- title: Diogenes the Wise Man. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · full text with trees description: Diogenes the Wise Man., «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: At Cor-inth, in Greece, there lived a very wise man whose name was Di-og'e-nes. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/38/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/) / Diogenes the Wise Man. # Diogenes the Wise Man. Diogenes the Wise Man. of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole text, 24 sentences and 378 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/38/1/) — At Cor-inth, in Greece, there lived a very wise man whose name was Di-og'e-nes. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/38/2/) — Men came from all parts of the land to see him and hear him talk. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/38/3/) — But wise as he was, he had some very queer ways. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/38/4/) — He did not believe that any man ought to have more things than he re-al-ly needed; and he said that no man needed much. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/38/5/) — And so he did not live in a house, but slept in a tub or barrel, which he rolled about from place to place. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/38/6/) — He spent his days sitting in the sun, and saying wise things to those who were around him. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/38/7/) — At noon one day, Di-og-e-nes was seen walking through the streets with a lighted lantern, and looking all around as if in search of something. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/38/8/) — "Why do you carry a lantern when the sun is shining?" some one said. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/38/9/) — "I am looking for an honest man," answered Diogenes. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/38/10/) — When Alexander the Great went to Cor-inth, all the fore-most men in the city came out to see him and to praise him. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/38/11/) — But Diogenes did not come; and he was the only man for whose o-pin-ions Alexander cared. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/38/12/) — And so, since the wise man would not come to see the king, the king went to see the wise man. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/38/13/) — He found Diogenes in an out-of-the-way place, lying on the ground by his tub. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/38/14/) — He was en-joy-ing the heat and the light of the sun. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/38/15/) — When he saw the king and a great many people coming, he sat up and looked at Alexander. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/38/16/) — Alexander greeted him and said,-- - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/38/17/) — "Diogenes, I have heard a great deal about your wisdom. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/38/18/) — Is there anything that I can do for you?" - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/38/19/) — "Yes," said Diogenes. " - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/38/20/) — You can stand a little on one side, so as not to keep the sunshine from me." - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/38/21/) — This answer was so dif-fer-ent from what he expected, that the king was much sur-prised. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/38/22/) — But it did not make him angry; it only made him admire the strange man all the more. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/38/23/) — When he turned to ride back, he said to his officers,-- - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/38/24/) — "Say what you will; if I were not Alexander, I would like to be Diogenes." - ← previous: [Alexander and Bucephalus.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/37/) - next →: [The Brave Three Hundred.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/) - ↑ back to [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/)