Diogenes Quotes

• I am looking for an honest man.

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• Yes…stand out of my sun a little.

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• Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

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• It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.

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• The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

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

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• The mob is the mother of tyrants.

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• The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

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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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• 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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• Stand a little less between me and the sun.

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

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

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

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• Blushing is the color of virtue.

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• A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

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• The great thieves lead away the little thief.

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

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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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Diogenes (43)

Birth:	412 BC
Death:	323 BC
Nationality:	Greek
Profession:	Philosopher

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Diogenes was a greek philosopher. He is a Greek name shared by several important historical figures, the best-known of whom is the philosopher Diogenes of Sinope, better known as Diogenes the Cynic or simply Diogenes.

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