Diogenes Quotes
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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
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I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
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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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It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
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Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.
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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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There is a false love that will make you something you are not.
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The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.
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We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.
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I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.
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Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
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The great thieves lead away the little thief.
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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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If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
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Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.
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Modesty is the color of virtue.
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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
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We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone?
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I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.
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One day, observing a child drinking out of his hands, he cast away the cup from his wallet with the words, "A child has beaten me in plainness of living."