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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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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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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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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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Asked where he came from, he said, I am a citizen of the world.
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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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Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.
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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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I am looking for an honest man.
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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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I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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