It is how I want to live, I don't want to impose it on others and don't even do it that well myself. The early Stoics were influenced by the Cynics, the word Cy

It is how I want to live, I don't want to impose it on others and don't even do it that well myself. The early Stoics were influenced by the Cynics, the word Cynic apparently means stray dog in Greek. Various philosophers, such as the Pythagoreans, had advocated simple living in the centuries preceding the Cynics. So it is a very old idea.