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When asked what wine he liked to drink, he replied, "That which belongs to another."

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Being asked whether it was better to marry or not, he replied, "Whichever you do, you will repent it."

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"Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down."

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Asked from what country he came, he replied, "I am a citizen of the world."

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Very late in life, when he was studying geometry, some one said to Lacydes, "Is it then a time for you to be learning now?" "If it is not," he replied, "when will it be?"

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When Zeno was asked what a friend was, he replied, "Another I."

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Once Diogenes, who was washing vegetables, ridiculed him as he passed by, and said, "If you had learnt to eat these vegetables, you would not have been a slave in the palace of a tyrant." But Aristippus replied, "And you, if you had known how to behave among men, would not have been washing vegetables."

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Diogenes Laërtius

Diogenes Laërtius

Born: 180
Died: 240 (aged 60)
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