Cynic self-sufficiency, autarkeia, is stronger than the Stoic version that grew out of it. The Stoics allowed that health and money are preferred even if not good; the Cynics allowed nothing of the kind and treated the preference itself as the wound. The cup appears in Diogenes Laertius in a run of subtractions — the cup, then the bowl, when he saw a child eating lentils from a hollowed crust. Read charitably it is a discipline of reducing dependency; read as its ancient critics read it, it is showmanship, and the Cynics did not much care which.