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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• It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

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

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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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• He has the most who is most content with the least.

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• We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

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

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• Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.

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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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• I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

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

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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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• The great thieves lead away the little thief.

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• A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

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• Blushing is the color of virtue.

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

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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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