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Alexander The Great strode through the market place at Corinth.

After a busy month's conquering he was on his day off.

The sun streamed over the teeming crowd.

Alexander halted opposite an elderly beggar clothed in rags who was squatting in a little alcove at the northern end of the market.

He knew the beggar was the legendary wise man Diogenes.

Alexander The Great addressed the beggar.

"Ask anything of me," Alexander said. "Any request at all. And I will grant it."

The beggar looked up.

"Would you move two steps to the right," he said. "You are blocking the sun."

Alexander's henchmen lunged forward to strike him for his impertinence.

Alexander stayed them with a word.

"Back!" he cried. "Of all the people in the world, if I was not Alexander, I would rather be Diogenes."