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The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.
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When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people."
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Stand a little less between me and the sun.
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By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
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Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.
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He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."
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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."
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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
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Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.
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The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.
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You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
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Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.
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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
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He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed."
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When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments.
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The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.
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It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
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He was breakfasting in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of "dog." "It is you who are dogs," cried he, "when you stand round and watch me at my breakfast."
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On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.
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Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
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The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
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