Diogenes Quotes
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Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.
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If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.
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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".
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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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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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Let us not unlearn what we have already learned
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When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.
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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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It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
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To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
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By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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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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Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.
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Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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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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You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
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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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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
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I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
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Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
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Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."
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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?
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Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.
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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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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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