Diogenes Quotes
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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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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 health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.
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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
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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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The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.
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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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You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
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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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Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.
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Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."
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Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
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Stand a little less between me and the sun.
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When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people."
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Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.
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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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By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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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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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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Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
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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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To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay."
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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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Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.