Diogenes Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Giving, Sobriety, Comfort

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• I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

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  Book, Patriotic, Beer

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• Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.

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  Truth, Lying, Gains

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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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  Practice, Alms, Statues

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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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.

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  Good Friend, Enemy, Hot

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch, circa 100 AD.

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• I am looking for an honest man.

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  Honesty, Men, Honest

  Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

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• Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

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  Dog, Rewards, Philosopher

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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 and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

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  Men, Looks, Philosopher

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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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  Self, Should, Criticize

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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 full of diseases.

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  House, Body, Disease

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• I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

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  Ought, Knows

  "The Home Book of Quotations, Classical and Modern". Book by Burton Egbert Stevenson, 1937.

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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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  Wine, People, Pay

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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• The mob is the mother of tyrants.

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  Mother, Motherhood, Tyrants

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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 said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief."

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  Saws, Temples, Thieves

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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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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  Sunshine, Littles, Greetings

  "Life of Alexander (Parallel Lives series)". Book by Plutarch, 1579.

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• The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt (according to Stobæus), 1922.

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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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  Plato, Men, Animal

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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• Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?

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  Path, Blame, Existence

  "Anthology (Book 3)". Book by Joannes Stobaeus, 1536.

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• It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

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  Wise, Men

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

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  Dog, Kind, Greedy

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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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  Children, Drinking, Hands

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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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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  Care, Awareness, Should

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• The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

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  Art, Slavery, Slave

  Herakleitos, Diogenes (2011). “Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport”, p.42, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing what they have with what the envious person has, rather than the envious person realising they have more than what they could have and certainly more than some others and being grateful. It is really just an inability to get a correct perspective on their lives.

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Iron

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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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  Dog, Bystanders, Watches

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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