Diogenes Quotes
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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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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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The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.
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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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Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Behold Plato's man!"
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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
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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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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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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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Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
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Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.
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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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Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."
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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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If your cloak was a gift, I appreciate it; if it was a loan, I'm not through with it yet.
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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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You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
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Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.
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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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The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.
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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
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On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame.