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> [If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diogenes/if-you-are-to-be-kept-right-you-must-possess-either-good-friends-or/)

[Diogenes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diogenes/)

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## More by Diogenes

> [Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diogenes/dogs-and-philosophers-do-the-greatest-good-and-get-the-fewest-rewards/)

[Diogenes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diogenes/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diogenes/perdiccas-threatened-to-put-him-to-death-unless-he-came-to-him-that-s/)

[Diogenes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diogenes/)

> [If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diogenes/if-only-it-was-as-easy-to-banish-hunger-by-rubbing-the-belly-as-it-is/)

[Diogenes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diogenes/)

> [He has the most who is most content with the least.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diogenes/he-has-the-most-who-is-most-content-with-the-least/)

[Diogenes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diogenes/)

> [In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diogenes/in-a-rich-man-s-house-there-is-no-place-to-spit-but-his-face/)

[Diogenes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diogenes/)

> [Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diogenes/chilo-advised-not-to-speak-evil-of-the-dead/)

[Diogenes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diogenes/)

> [There is a false love that will make you something you are not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diogenes/there-is-a-false-love-that-will-make-you-something-you-are-not/)

[Diogenes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diogenes/)

> [“And at last, becoming a complete misanthrope, he used to live, spending his time in walking about the mountains; feeding on grasses and plants,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diogenes/and-at-last-becoming-a-complete-misanthrope-he-used-to-live-spending/)

[Diogenes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diogenes/)

> [Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diogenes/most-men-are-within-a-finger-s-breadth-of-being-mad/)

[Diogenes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diogenes/)

> [It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diogenes/it-takes-a-wise-man-to-discover-a-wise-man/)

[Diogenes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diogenes/)

> [I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diogenes/i-am-diogenes-the-dog-i-nuzzle-the-kind-bark-at-the-greedy-and-bite/)

[Diogenes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diogenes/)

> [To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diogenes/to-become-self-educated-you-should-condemn-yourself-for-all-those/)

[Diogenes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diogenes/)

> [It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diogenes/it-is-the-privilege-of-the-gods-to-want-nothing-and-of-godlike-men-to/)

[Diogenes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diogenes/)

> [Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diogenes/those-who-have-virtue-always-in-their-mouths-and-neglect-it-in/)

[Diogenes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diogenes/)

> [I am looking for a human.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diogenes/i-am-looking-for-a-human/)

[Diogenes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diogenes/)

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