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Men Quotes by Diogenes
- No man is hurt but by himself.
- I am looking for an honest man.
- To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill…
- The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
- In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
- There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
- Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
- The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."
- When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man,…
- 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…
- Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
- 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…
- As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
- It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
- It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
- Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
- It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
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