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Asked where he came from, he said, I am a citizen of the world.

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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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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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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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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings
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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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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
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There is a false love that will make you something you are not.
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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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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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People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments the sound is all they have to offer.
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When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, In ruling people.
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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 Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.
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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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Wise kings generally have wise counselors and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
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Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
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