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If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?

Diogenes

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Asked where he came from, he said, I am a citizen of the world.
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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
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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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The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.
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By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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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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I am looking for an honest man.
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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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Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.
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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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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 art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
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Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
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Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.
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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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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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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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One day, observing a child drinking out of his hands, he cast away the cup from his wallet with the words, A child has beaten me in plainness of living.
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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings
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There is a false love that will make you something you are not.
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