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Friday, June 14, 2024 12:15:47 AM

  1. "One day he begged for money from a statue,* and when asked why he was doing so, replied, ‘I’m getting practice in being refused.’ (Diogenes Laertius 6.49;"

Friday, June 14, 2024 12:19:03 AM

  1. "He once lit a lamp in daylight and walked around; and when some people asked him why he was doing that, he said that he was searching for a man."

Friday, June 14, 2024 12:19:37 AM

  1. "He would call human beings only those who have a knowledge of what is truly human, just as those who have a knowledge of grammar are grammarians, or of music are musicians."

Friday, June 14, 2024 12:21:04 AM

  1. "When someone asked him, as he was returning from Sparta to Athens, where he had been and where he was going, he replied, ‘From the men’s quarters to the women’s.’*"

Friday, June 14, 2024 12:21:40 AM

  1. "When an Athenian once reproached Diogenes, saying that he was always praising the Spartans and yet did not care to go and live among them, he replied, ‘But a doctor, being a man who is responsible for bringing people to good health, does not carry out his business among those who are healthy.’"

Friday, June 14, 2024 12:27:03 AM

  1. "He walked into a theatre against the flow as everyone was streaming out, and when asked why he was doing so, replied, ‘Why, this is what I seek to do my whole life through.’"

Friday, June 14, 2024 12:27:32 AM

  1. "Someone said that Diogenes was out of his mind.* ‘It’s not that I’m out of my mind,’ he replied. ‘It’s that I don’t have the same mind as you.’"

Friday, June 14, 2024 12:35:50 AM

  1. "When someone asked him, ‘Who are the noblest of men?’, he replied, ‘Those who despise riches, reputation, pleasure and concern for life, and are thus able to overmaster their opposites, poverty, ill-repute, suffering, and death.’"

Friday, June 14, 2024 12:39:06 AM

  1. "To someone who said to him, ‘You play the philosopher without knowing anything at all’, he replied, ‘Even if I merely pretend to wisdom, that is itself the mark of one who aspires to it.’"

Friday, June 14, 2024 12:42:50 AM

  1. "To some boys who crowded round him, saying, ‘Watch out that he doesn’t bite us’, he said, ‘Don’t be afraid, lads, dogs don’t feed on beets.’*"

Friday, June 14, 2024 12:54:36 AM

  1. "An astronomer was pointing in the market-place to a diagram representing the stars, and was saying that ‘these here are the wandering stars’;* on hearing this, Diogenes said, ‘Don’t lie, my friend, it’s not these that are wandering astray, but those over there’—pointing to the people standing around. (Stobaeus"

Friday, June 21, 2024 1:25:48 AM

  1. "It is said that Plato used to say of Diogenes that he was Socrates gone mad.*"

Friday, June 21, 2024 1:26:58 AM

  1. "He said that wealth is the vomit of fortune."

Friday, June 21, 2024 1:33:06 AM

  1. "On seeing an avaricious man being carried out for burial, he said, ‘After living a life that was no life he’s left a living to others.’*"

Friday, June 21, 2024 1:35:44 AM

  1. "He said that the stomach is a whirlpool* that sucks down one’s livelihood."

Monday, June 10, 2024 12:17:41 AM

  1. "Diogenes thought that one should anticipate the very worst that fate can bring by plunging into a life of complete destitution."

Monday, June 10, 2024 12:45:49 AM

  1. "‘the roots of education are bitter but their fruit is sweet’;"

Monday, June 10, 2024 12:46:17 AM

  1. "‘When asked how the educated differ from the uneducated, Aristotle replied, “As do the living from the dead.”’"

Saturday, June 15, 2024 2:50:56 PM

  1. "He said that true happiness is this, that one’s mind and soul should be perpetually at peace and in good cheer."

Saturday, June 15, 2024 2:52:12 PM

  1. "‘No one other than I myself is to blame for all these ills.’*"

Saturday, June 15, 2024 2:52:42 PM

  1. "To someone who said life is bad, he said, ‘Not life, but life lived badly.’"

Saturday, June 15, 2024 2:53:44 PM

  1. "Diogenes said that people procure what they need to live, but not what they need to live well."

Saturday, June 15, 2024 2:54:05 PM

  1. "Diogenes would constantly say that to manage our lives properly, we need either reason or a rope.*"

Sunday, June 9, 2024 1:55:24 AM

  1. "he could lug around with him, he would carry a knapsack"

Sunday, June 9, 2024 2:00:02 AM

  1. "he walked backwards in a public arcade, and when people laughed at him, retorted that it was they who should be ashamed for taking the wrong direction in life."

Thursday, June 13, 2024 10:19:28 AM

  1. "Diogenes said that other people lived to eat, but he ate to live."

Thursday, June 13, 2024 10:20:03 AM

  1. "‘But if I drank it all, it is not only the wine that would be lost, but me too!’"

Thursday, June 13, 2024 10:22:16 AM

  1. "When asked at what hour one should dine, he replied, ‘If you are rich, when you want, if you are poor, when you can.’*"

Thursday, June 13, 2024 12:54:24 AM

  1. "DIOGENES: You’re looking at a citizen of the world."

Thursday, June 13, 2024 1:04:03 AM

  1. "‘That was at a time when I was just as you are now; but what I am now, you will never be.’"

Thursday, June 13, 2024 9:56:58 AM

  1. "When asked who is rich among men, he replied, ‘He who is self-sufficient.’*"

Thursday, June 13, 2024 9:58:59 AM

  1. "During the night a thief attempted to pull his money-bag from under his head; and on becoming aware of this, he said, ‘Take it, you wretch, and allow me to get some sleep!’"

Thursday, June 27, 2024 10:12:12 PM

  1. "When asked what is the finest thing of all in life, he said, ‘Plain speaking.’* (Diogenes Laertius 6.69; G473)"

Thursday, June 27, 2024 10:12:28 PM

  1. "He said that the orators are very earnest about justice in their speeches, but not at all in their actions."

Thursday, June 27, 2024 12:26:12 AM

  1. "When Agesilaos of Cos recounted a dream, Diogenes said, ‘You look into how you act and talk in your dreams, but fail to see where you are making a false step while you are awake.’"

Thursday, June 27, 2024 12:32:57 AM

  1. "he replied, ‘I don’t know, all I know is that it is expedient"

Tuesday, June 18, 2024 12:52:02 AM

  1. "When someone asked him what he had gained from philosophy, he said, ‘This, if nothing else, that I’m prepared for every fortune.’"

Tuesday, June 18, 2024 12:53:30 AM

  1. "Diogenes said that he thought he could see Fortune storming out to attack him and exclaiming, ‘But that mad dog alone I cannot hit!’"

Tuesday, June 18, 2024 12:55:59 AM

  1. "‘Thank you, Fortune, for training me to virtue by means of such afflictions.’"

Tuesday, June 18, 2024 1:03:13 AM

  1. "‘The same old story—ask him one thing and he’ll reply with a thousand!’"

Tuesday, June 25, 2024 1:00:20 AM

  1. "Love, he said, is the occupation of the unoccupied.* (Diogenes Laertius 6.51; G198)"

Tuesday, June 25, 2024 1:01:53 AM

  1. "Diogenes called the most beautiful courtesans ‘queens’, since many men will fulfil their every command."

Tuesday, June 25, 2024 1:09:58 AM

  1. "When (so the story goes) someone was due to be punished for the crime of adultery, Diogenes said, ‘Don’t buy with your life what is sold for a gift.’"

Tuesday, June 25, 2024 1:13:11 AM

  1. "To one who prided himself on his good looks, he said, ‘Aren’t you ashamed to attach such importance to your youthful charms, which are only yours on loan and for a short time at that?’"

Tuesday, June 25, 2024 1:13:59 AM

  1. "‘The fine smell around your head is creating a stink in your life.’"

Wednesday, June 26, 2024 12:47:41 AM

  1. "Diogenes delivered a discourse on moderation and self-control, and when the Athenians applauded him for it, cried, ‘To hell with the lot of you, since you contradict me in everything that you do!’"

Wednesday, June 26, 2024 12:50:26 AM

  1. "He criticized people for the way in which they prayed, saying that they asked for the things that seemed good to them, and not for those that truly are.* (Diogenes Laertius 6.42; G350)"