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Diogenes of Sinope quotes - page 2
When asked why people give to beggars but not to philosophers, he replied, 'Because they expect they may become lame and blind, but never that they will become philosophers.'
Diogenes of Sinope
Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.
Diogenes of Sinope
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.
Diogenes of Sinope
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.
Diogenes of Sinope
We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
Diogenes of Sinope
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
Diogenes of Sinope
Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
Diogenes of Sinope
On reaching Athens he fell in with Antisthenes. Being repulsed by him, because he never welcomed pupils, by sheer persistence Diogenes wore him out. Once when he stretched out his staff against him, the pupil offered his head with the words, "Strike, for you will find no wood hard enough to keep me away from you, so long as I think you've something to say."
Diogenes of Sinope
Diogenes the cynic, seeing one of the so-called freedmen pluming himself, while many heartily congratulated him, marveled at the absence of reason and discernment. "A man might as well,” he said, "proclaim that one of his servants became a grammarian, a geometrician, or musician, when he has no idea whatever of the art.” For as the proclamation cannot make them men of knowledge, so neither can it make them free.
Diogenes of Sinope
When scolded for masturbating in public, he said "I wish it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing my belly."
Diogenes of Sinope
Thieves and fighters do not come from eaters of barley-bread; but informers and tyrants come from meat-eaters.
Diogenes of Sinope
When people laughed at him because he walked backward beneath the portico, he said to them: "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?"
Diogenes of Sinope
To one who asked what was the proper time for lunch, he said, "If a rich man, when you will; if a poor man, when you can."
Diogenes of Sinope
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
Diogenes of Sinope
A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.
Diogenes of Sinope
Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
Diogenes of Sinope
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Diogenes of Sinope
Blushing is the color of virtue.
Diogenes of Sinope
The great thieves lead away the little thief.
Diogenes of Sinope
It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
Diogenes of Sinope
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Diogenes of Sinope
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.
Diogenes of Sinope
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