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Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.

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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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Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.
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Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.
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By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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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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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
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One day, observing a child drinking out of his hands, he cast away the cup from his wallet with the words, A child has beaten me in plainness of living.
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The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
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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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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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Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
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Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.
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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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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
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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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It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
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When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.
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Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
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