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Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.

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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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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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Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.
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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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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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To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, Come, see that you obey orders.
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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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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The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.
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All things are in common among friends.
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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 foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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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.
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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 some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, And I sentenced them to stay at home.
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Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
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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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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?
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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings
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