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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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Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.
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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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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
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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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When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, In ruling people.
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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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The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.
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Asked where he came from, he said, I am a citizen of the world.
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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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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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All things are in common among friends.
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We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
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When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments.
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Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
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The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
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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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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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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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