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The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.

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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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Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.
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When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, In ruling people.
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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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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 am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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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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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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Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.
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Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.
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He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, A spy upon your insatiable greed.
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By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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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 takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
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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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He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, To get practice in being refused.
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