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The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.

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To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
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I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest 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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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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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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There is a false love that will make you something you are not.
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The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.
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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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If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?
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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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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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The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
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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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The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, The dream of a waking man.
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