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

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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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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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People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments the sound is all they have to offer.
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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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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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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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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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It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
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On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame
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Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.
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Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.
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By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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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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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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