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All things are in common among friends.
Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
If your cloak was a gift, I appreciate it; if it was a loan, I'm not through with it yet.
Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy , for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning , poverty forces us to practice .
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.
There is a false love that will make you something you are not.
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, A spy upon your insatiable greed .
Asked where he came from, he said, I am a citizen of the world .
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 better, he will be hurt. If he focusses on how it could have been worse, he will be happy. The same is true for women too.
When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, In ruling people .
To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, That for which other people pay.
People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments; the sound is all they have to offer.
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.
Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down."
Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.
When Alexander the Great addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, Diogenes replied Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine .
Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.
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.
The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.
The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.
The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.
Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."
Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.
Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, To get practice in being refused.
Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.
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.
You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.
The great thieves lead away the little thief.
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, Come, see that you obey orders.
Let us not unlearn what we have already learned
Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
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, Here is Plato's man.
Being asked where in Greece he saw good men , he replied, 'Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.
Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."
Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.
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.
Love comes with hunger.
In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, I am looking for a human .
I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.
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, whenever you can.
I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.
When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves .
Fools! You think of "god" as a sentient being. God is the word used to represent a force. This force created nothing, it just helps things along. It does not answer prayers, although it may make you think of a way to solve a problem. It has the power to influence you, but not decide for you.
Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.
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 conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.
There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
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.
The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone?
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.
