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Diogenes Inspirational Quotes (91)

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If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?
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Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.
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The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, The dream of a waking man.
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Perdiccas threatened to put him to death unless he came to him, That's nothing wonderful, Diogenes said, for a beetle or a tarantula would do the same.
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Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, My opinion is, and So and so will not agree to this.
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I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.
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Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.
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It used to be a common saying of Myson's that men ought not to seek for things in words, but for words in things for that things are not made on account of words but that words are put together for the sake of things.
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All things are in common among friends.
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Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry.
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Bury me on my face, said Diogenes and when he was asked why, he replied, Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.
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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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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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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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There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law that which arises from customs is the unwritten law.
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There is a false love that will make you something you are not.
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We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
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Fools! You think of god as a sentient being. God is the word used to represent a force. This force created nothing, it just helps things along. It does not answer prayers, although it may make you think of a way to solve a problem. It has the power to influence you, but not decide for you.
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Once when Bion was at sea in the company of some wicked men, he fell into the hands of pirates and when the rest said, We are undone if we are known,-But I, said he, am undone if we are not known.
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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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Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.
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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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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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