"When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, "And I sentenced them to stay at home.""
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"Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world.""
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"Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them."
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"The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow."
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"Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief.""
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"The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body."
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"There is a false love that will make you something you are not."
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"Nothing can be produced out of nothing."
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"Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."
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"The great thieves lead away the little thief."
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"Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad."
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"Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off."
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"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others."
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"Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead.""
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"Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside."
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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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"Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends."
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"When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves.""
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"By worrying as little as possible about fame."
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"Love comes with hunger."
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