Diogenes

Let us not unlearn what we have already learned

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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?

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It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

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Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.

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We have complicated every simple gift of the gods.

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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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“Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend.”

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The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

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Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

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It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

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To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay."

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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 chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.

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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…

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Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and…

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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…

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The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

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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…

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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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When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are…

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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…

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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

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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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“To one who asked what was the proper time for lunch, he said, "If a rich man, when you will; if a…

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As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are…

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I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I…

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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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Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing…

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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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Being asked whether it's better to marry or not, he (Socrates) replied, Whichever you do you will repent it

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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 have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine,…

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You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.

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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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