you missed out on the best part of the Alexander The Great one (which is in only in a few of the many versions of the story iirc):

After Alexander the Great is told to move to the side, he was so amused and surprised that not only he did, he said “If I wasn’t Alexander, I would like to be Diogenes” to which Diogenes replied: “If I wasn’t Diogenes, I would also like to be Diogenes.”

:)