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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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  Music, Fake People, Practice

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• The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.

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  Association, Sun

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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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  Gratitude, Judgement, Mind

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• Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

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  Men, Mad, Insanity

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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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  Order, Slave, Said

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

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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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  Men, Expression, Valuable

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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 set my teeth in rascals.

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  Dog, Giving, Fawns

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• Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.

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  Law, Speech, Cobwebs

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• Love comes with hunger.

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  Hunger

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• I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

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  Children, Drinking, Hands

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• Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.

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  Men, Ends, Ability

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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, take from me what you cannot give.

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  Sunshine, Giving, May

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• The great thieves lead away the little thief.

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  Thieves, Littles, Crime

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• 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.

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  Friendship, Good Friend, Men

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• I am looking for a human.

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  Humans

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius (Book 6: The Cynics, Chapter: Diogenes, Section VI), circa 200 AD.

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• Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."

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  Boys, Men, Good Man

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

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• Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".

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  Truth, Lying, Knows

  "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, Book 9: Uncategorized philosophers and Skeptics, Pyrrho, 8,

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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 tarantula would do the same."

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  Tarantulas, Wonderful, Said

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

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• Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world."

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  Citizens, World, Said

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

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

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  Leadership, Wise, Counselor

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• What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

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  Drinking, Wine, Drink

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• By worrying as little as possible about fame.

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  Worry, Littles, Fame

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• Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.

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  Ego, Different, Boast

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

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• Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.

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  Men, Boys, Good Man

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

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• I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.

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  Wine, Drunk, Cost

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