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He has the most who is most content with the least.
Diogenes
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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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Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
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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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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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The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, The dream of a waking man.
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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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He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, I am looking for a human.
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Asked where he came from, he said, I am a citizen of the world.
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