Is this the dogmat we all know and love?

Cynosarges - first home of the Cynics:
"They rejected the social values of their time, often flouting conventions in shocking ways to prove their point. They challenged their listeners to get in touch with their 'natural' animal side [...] disrepute and poverty are advantageous in so far as they drive back the man upon himself, increasing his self-control and purifying his intellect from the dross of the external. The good man (i.e. the wise man) wants nothing: like the gods, he is self-sufficing; 'let men gain wisdom—or buy a rope'; he is a citizen of the world, not of a particular country [...] The very essence of their philosophy was the negation of the graces of social courtesy; it was impossible to 'return to nature' in the midst of a society clothed in the accumulated artificiality of evolved convention without shocking the ingrained sensibilities of its members." (Wikipedia)