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There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

Diogenes

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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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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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It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
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I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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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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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?
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By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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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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Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.
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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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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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The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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All things are in common among friends.
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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
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Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.
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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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