Diogenes

Found 7 thoughts of Diogenes

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.

Diogenes

Blushing is the color of virtue.

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One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.

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Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

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The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

Diogenes