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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?
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The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.
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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 takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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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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By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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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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The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, The dream of a waking man.
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The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.
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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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There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
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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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Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.
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When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, In ruling people.
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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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Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, Behold Plato's man!
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When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments.
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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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Asked where he came from, he said, I am a citizen of the world.
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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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