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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

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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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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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To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
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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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The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.
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There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
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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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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?
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The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest 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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Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
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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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He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, I am looking for a human.
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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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The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.
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Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.
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Asked where he came from, he said, I am a citizen of the world.
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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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When Alexander the Great addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, Diogenes replied Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine.
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