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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.
Diogenes
I am looking for an honest man.
Diogenes
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.
Diogenes
Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
Diogenes
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
Diogenes
Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.
Diogenes
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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If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?
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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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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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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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To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, Come, see that you obey orders.
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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 question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, The dream of a waking man.
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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.
Diogenes
Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
Diogenes
He has the most who is most content with the least.
Diogenes
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?
Diogenes
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.
Diogenes
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
Diogenes
