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"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.""
"There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool."
"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."
"Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience."
"Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed."
"If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you."
"He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused.""
"We have complicated every simple gift of the gods."
"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth."
"You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself."
"Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly."
"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."
"If your cloak was a gift, I appreciate it; if it was a loan, I'm not through with it yet."
"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."
"Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?"
"To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay.""
"On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame"
"Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?"
"The art of being a slave is to rule one's master."
"Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all."