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Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato's man." On which account this addition was made to the definition,—"With broad flat nails."

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That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.

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Of a rich man who was niggardly he said, "That man does not own his estate, but his estate owns him."

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Xenophanes speaks thus:—
And no man knows distinctly anything,
And no man ever will.

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Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper."

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Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man."

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When asked what he would take to let a man give him a blow on the head, he said, "A helmet."

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A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can."

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It was a favourite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

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Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world.

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One of the sayings of Diogenes was that most men were within a finger's breadth of being mad; for if a man walked with his middle finger pointing out, folks would think him mad, but not so if it were his forefinger.

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They also say that God is an animal immortal, rational, perfect, and intellectual in his happiness, unsusceptible of any kind of evil, having a foreknowledge of the universe and of all that is in the universe; however, that he has not the figure of a man; and that he is the creator of the universe, and as it were the Father of all things in common, and that a portion of him pervades everything.

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Alcæus mentions Aristodemus in these lines:—
'T is money makes the man; and he who 's none
Is counted neither good nor honourable.

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Socrates having heard Plato read the Lysis, said, "O Hercules! what a number of lies the young man has told about me." For he had set down a great many things as sayings of Socrates which he never said.

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Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place."

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The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."

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When a man reproached him for going into unclean places, he said, "The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them."

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