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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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Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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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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To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
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All things are in common among friends.
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Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
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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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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?
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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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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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I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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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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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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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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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
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Asked where he came from, he said, I am a citizen of the world.
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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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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.
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