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I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.

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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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If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?
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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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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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Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.
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Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.
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He was breakfasting in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of dog. It is you who are dogs, cried he, when you stand round and watch me at my breakfast.
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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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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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When Alexander the Great addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, Diogenes replied Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine.
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Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.
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I am looking for an 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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Asked where he came from, he said, I am a citizen of the world.
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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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The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.
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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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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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