Diogenes Quotes
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Perdiccas threatened to put him to death unless he came to him, "That's nothing wonderful," Diogenes said, "for a beetle or a tarantula would do the same."
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Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
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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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The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
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Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.
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Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
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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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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
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The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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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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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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The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.
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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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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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Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
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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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By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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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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Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."
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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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Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.
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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.