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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but 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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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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I am looking for an honest man.
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No man is hurt but by himself. ...Literally by how he interprets what happens to him. If he focusses on how it could have been better, he will be hurt. If he focusses on how it could have been worse, he will be happy. The same is true for women too.
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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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Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.
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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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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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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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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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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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Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.
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I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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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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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
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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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When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves.
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Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.
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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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Asked where he came from, he said, I am a citizen of the world.
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