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When Alexander the Great addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, Diogenes replied "Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine."
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He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed."
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When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves."
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When asked what was the proper time for supper:
If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.
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When scolded for masturbating in public, he said "I wish it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing my belly."
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Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world."
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I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
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To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay."
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Diogenes of Sinope
Born:
404 BC
Died:
322 BC
(aged 82)
Bio:
Diogenes of Sinope was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy. Also known as Diogenes the Cynic, he was born in Sinope, an Ionian colony on the Black Sea, in 412 or 404 BC and died at Corinth in 323 BC.
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