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“He has the most who is most content with the least.”
-- Diogenes

#Old Soul
“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”
-- Diogenes

#Book #Beer #Greek
“Blushing is the color of virtue.”
-- Diogenes

#Love #Life #Dream
“Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.”
-- Diogenes

#Silly #Animal #Intelligent
“We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.”
-- Diogenes

#Inspirational #Two #Listening
“In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.”
-- Diogenes

#Men #House #Faces
“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

#Men #Looks #Philosopher
“Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.”
-- Diogenes

#Dog #Rewards #Philosopher
“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.”
-- Diogenes

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational
“The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.”
-- Diogenes

#Shining #Sun
“One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings”
-- Diogenes

#Original Thought #Quoting #Mindless
“There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.”
-- Diogenes

#Wise #Men #Differences
“We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.”
-- Diogenes

#Dream #Spirituality #Curious
“I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.”
-- Diogenes

#Wine #Drunk #Cost
“Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?”
-- Diogenes

#Teacher #Why Not #Pupils
“It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.”
-- Diogenes

#Mad #Different
“I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.”
-- Diogenes

#Children #Drinking #Hands
“Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?”
-- Diogenes

#Hurt #Feelings #Use
“A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.”
-- Diogenes

#Two #Soul #Abiding
“Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.”
-- Diogenes

#Wise #Wisdom #Kings
“What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.”
-- Diogenes

#Drinking #Wine #Drink
“Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.”
-- Diogenes

#Music #Fake People #Practice
“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

#Friendship #Good Friend #Men
“Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.”
-- Diogenes

#Truth #Lying #Gains
“To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.”
-- Diogenes

#Men #Perfection #Enemy
“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.”
-- Diogenes

#Time #Men #Rich
“I am looking for an honest man.”
-- Diogenes

#Honesty #Men #Honest
“Fools! You think of "god" as a sentient being. God is the word used to represent a force. This force created nothing, it just helps things along. It does not answer prayers, although it may make you think of a way to solve a problem. It has the power to influence you, but not decide for you.”
-- Diogenes

#Religious #Prayer #Thinking
“I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.”
-- Diogenes
“It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.”
-- Diogenes

#Men #Want #Littles

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