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I am looking for an honest man.

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By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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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 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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Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.
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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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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.
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The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?
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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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The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.
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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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It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
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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 question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, The dream of a waking man.
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The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.
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When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, In ruling people.
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Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
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Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.
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Asked where he came from, he said, I am a citizen of the world.
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