Diogenes Quotes
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“In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.”
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“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.”
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“The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.”
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“It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.”
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“Stand a little less between me and the sun.”
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“There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.”
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“What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.”
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“We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.”
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“He has the most who is most content with the least.”
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“I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.”
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“Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?”
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“The mob is the mother of tyrants.”
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“Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?”
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“Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.”
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“Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.”
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“Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.”
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“I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.”
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“Calumny is only the noise of madmen.”
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“When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.”
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“As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.”
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“A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.”
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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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“Modesty is the color of virtue.”
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“The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.”
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“The great thieves lead away the little thief.”
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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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“No man is hurt but by himself.”
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“Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.”
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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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“It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.”
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“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”
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“The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.”
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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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“Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.”
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“I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.”
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“Blushing is the color of virtue.”