Diogenes Of Sinope Quotes

#1. 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?

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#2. Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

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#3. It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

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#4. 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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#5. Blushing is the color of virtue.

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#6. I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.

Andy Hertzfeld

#7. Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

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#8. Justice is the only worship.
Love is the only priest.
Ignorance is the only slavery.
Happiness is the only good.
The time to be happy is now,
The place to be happy is here,
The way to be happy is to make others so.
Wisdom is the science of happiness.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#9. The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.

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#10. Edible. But I still hated the shows and hated myself for hating them. The clubs were smoky, which hurt my eyes and made my clothes stink. The speakers were always turned up so high that the music blared, causing my ears to ring so

Gayle Forman

#11. We have to understand that people are different. I don't know, if we really understand who we're dealing with over there.

Neil Young

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

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#13. 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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#14. Only a handful of people could be saved in all the world; these were the elect and clean, destined to begin a new race of humans and a new life, to renew and clean the earth, but no one saw these people anywhere; no one heard their words and voices.3

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

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#16. 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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#17. The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

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#18. No man is hurt but by himself

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#19. 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.

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#20. Alexander the Great found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained, I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave.

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#21. It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.

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#22. The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

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#23. Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.

John F. Kennedy

#24. The emptiness that fills in when once-the-beloved says, Who are you?

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