Blushing is the color of virtue.

Diogenes of Sinope

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I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Diogenes of Sinope


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The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.

Diogenes of Sinope

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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Diogenes of Sinope

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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

Diogenes of Sinope

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When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, "And I sentenced them to stay at home.

Diogenes of Sinope


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When people laughed at him because he walked backward beneath the portico, he said to them: "Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?

Diogenes of Sinope


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The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

Diogenes of Sinope


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To one who asked what was the proper time for lunch, he said, "If a rich man, when you will; if a poor man, when you can.

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Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief.

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