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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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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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He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, I am looking for a human.
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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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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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He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, A spy upon your insatiable greed.
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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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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He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, To get practice in being refused.
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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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The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.
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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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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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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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Wise kings generally have wise counselors and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
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To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, Come, see that you obey orders.
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Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.
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There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
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