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Category: Diogenes

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

Wine, Drink, Like

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.

Friends, Man, Good Friends

Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.

Man, Silly, Animals

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.

Practice, Sound, Virtue

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Why, Why Not, Pupil

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.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

Sun, Too, Shines

Thales was asked what was most difficult to man he answered: “To know one’s self.”

self, knowledge

Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly he said “That man does hot possess his estate but his estate possesses him.”

The only good is knowledge and the only evil ignorance.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

insults, calumny

We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.