Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, “Behold Plato’s man!”” ~ Diogenes “Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded.“There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.” ~ Diogenes Quotes.“Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.” ~ Diogenes.“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.” ~ Diogenes.“He was breakfasting in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of “dog.” “It is you who are dogs,” cried he, “when you stand round and watch me at my breakfast.”” ~ Diogenes.“Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.” ~ Diogenes.“A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.” ~ Diogenes.“The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.” ~ Diogenes.“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.”” ~ Diogenes.“To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.” ~ Diogenes.“If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?” ~ Diogenes.“We have complicated every simple gift of the gods.” ~ Diogenes.“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.“The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.” ~ Diogenes.“When Alexander the Great addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, Diogenes replied “Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine.”” ~ Diogenes.“I am looking for an honest man.” ~ Diogenes.Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you’ve got an audience.” ~ Diogenes “Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves.“He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, “To get practice in being refused.”” ~ Diogenes.“Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?” ~ Diogenes.“ Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.” ~ Diogenes.Said he – That when they speak truth they are not believed.” ~ Diogenes “Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it.I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.” ~ Diogenes “Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.” ~ Diogenes.“You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.” ~ Diogenes.“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.” ~ Diogenes.“He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, “I am looking for a human.”” ~ Diogenes.
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