Diogenes Quotes
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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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The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
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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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On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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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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I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
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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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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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To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders."
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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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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
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Let us not unlearn what we have already learned.
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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?
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People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments; the sound is all they have to offer.
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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."
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Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.
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The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.
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I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.
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No man is hurt but by himself.
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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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I am looking for a human.
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Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.
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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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There is a false love that will make you something you are not.