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Therefore, he chose to live in Athens or Corinth, where travelers from all over the Mediterranean world constantly came and went. And, by design, he publicly behaved in such ways as to show people what real life was.
因此，他決定住在雅典或科林斯，那里常有地中海沿岸國家的游客來來往往。在這些地方，他有意在眾人面前展示自己的生活方式，目的是向世人顯示什么才是真正的生活。
He thought most people were only half-alive, most men only half-men. At bright noonday he walked through the market place carrying a lighted lamp and inspecting the face of everyone he met. They asked him why. Diogenes answered "I'm trying to find a man."
他認為大多數人沒有充分利用自己的生命，都只是半個人。在一個陽光燦爛的中午，他拿著一盞燈穿過集市，仔細審視他遇見的每一個人的臉。人們問他為什么這樣做，他回答說我在找一個完整的人。”
To a gentleman whose servant was putting on his shoes for him, Diogenes said, "You won't be really happy until he wipes your nose for you: that will come after you lose the use of your hands."
有一次，見到一個紳士正讓仆人幫他穿鞋，第歐根尼對他說，你只有等仆人幫你擦鼻涕時才會真正感到幸福：不過這要等到你的雙手殘廢以后。”
Once there was a war scare so serious that it stirred even the lazy, profit-happy Corinthians. They began to drill, clean their weapons, and rebuild their neglected fortifications. Diogenes took his old cask and began to roll it up and down. "When you are all so busy," he said, "I feel I ought to do something!"
曾經有一場恐怖的戰爭——它甚至激發了那些懶惰的、唯利是圖的科林斯人。他們開始訓練、磨刀擦槍，重建荒廢已久的防御工事。第歐根尼帶上他的舊木桶，把它滾來滾去。“你們都這么忙，”他說，“我覺得我也該干點什么。”
And so he lived—like a dog, some said, because he cared nothing for the conventions of society, and because he showed his teeth and barked at those he disliked. Now he was lying in the sunlight, contented and happy, happier (he himself used to boast) than the Shah of Persia.
他就是這樣活著——有人說他像狗一樣，因為他毫不顧及社會習俗，還因為他對那些他不喜歡的人齜牙咧嘴，對他們咆哮。現在他躺在陽光下，心滿意足，比波斯國王還幸福（他過去經常這樣自夸）
