'Bury me on my face,' said Diogenes and when he was asked why, he replied, 'Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.'
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When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.
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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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Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.
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One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.
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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.
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The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other
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Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves, whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
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All things are in common among friends.
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When asked what was the proper time for supper If you are a rich man, whenever you please and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.
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He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.
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If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
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When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, 'To know one's self.' And what was easy, 'To advise another.'
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The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, The dream of a waking man.
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
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Chilo advised, not to speak evil of the dead.
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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
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Time is the image of eternity.
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The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
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Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed.
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We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.
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Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
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[When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.
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The only good is knowledge, the only evil is ignorance.
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