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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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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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People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments the sound is all they have to offer.
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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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To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
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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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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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Asked where he came from, he said, I am a citizen of the world.
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All things are in common among friends.
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There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
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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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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 looking for an honest man.
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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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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.
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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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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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