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All things are in common among friends.

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I am looking for an honest man.
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The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.
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There is a false love that will make you something you are not.
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Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.
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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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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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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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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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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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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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The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.
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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings
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Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.
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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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There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
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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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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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If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?
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