Tag: Diogenes
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The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
Diogenes
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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.
Diogenes
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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
Diogenes
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We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
Diogenes
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The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.
Diogenes
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Modesty is the color of virtue.
Diogenes
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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
Diogenes
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It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
Diogenes
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I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
Diogenes
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It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
Diogenes