It is said of Diogenes that one day Alexander came to see him and he was very much puzzled. Diogenes was sitting there in a cemetery. He had a pile of bones and he was searching for something.
Alexander asked 'What are you doing?'
He said "I am searching for the bones of your father, Philip, but I cannot distinguish them from the bones of his slaves."
Alexander said 'You are just mad. You always do something mad. Bones are bones -- you cannot make any distinction between the bones of a beggar and a king.'
Diogenes said 'Then you are not so stupid as I used to think. If bones are not different then nothing is different. Then why do you go on befooling yourself that you are a king?
Death will reduce everything to equality; nobody will be a king and nobody will be a beggar.
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