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When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people."
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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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Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
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By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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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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Stand a little less between me and the sun.
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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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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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Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."
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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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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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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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You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
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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 Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.
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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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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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Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.
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When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, "And I sentenced them to stay at home."
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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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On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.
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