All Diogenes Quotes
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
Diogenes
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It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
Diogenes
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Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
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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The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
Diogenes
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