Diogenes Quotes
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Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
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Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.
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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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Stand a little less between me and the sun.
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The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.
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Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
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The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.
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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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When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people."
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Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.
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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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To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay."
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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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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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Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
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Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."
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By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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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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To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders."
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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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I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.