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Famous Diogenes Quotes
“Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.”
“Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.”
“I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?”
Source: Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport
“The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.”
“In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.”
Source: Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport
“There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.”
“The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."”
“Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.”
“It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.”