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“S'il n'y a pas de mal à manger, alors il n'y a pas de mal à manger en public; or il n'y a pas de mal à manger, donc il n'y a pas de mal à manger en public.”

Diogène de Sinope

Il avait coutume de tout faire en public, les repas et l'amour, et il raisonnait ainsi.
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“Si je n'étais Alexandre, je voudrais être Diogène!”

Diogène de Sinope

Citation attribuée à Alexandre le Grand
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“Il entrait au théatre par la porte de sortie, et comme on s'en étonnait, il déclarait : "Je m'efforce de faire dans ma vie le contraire de tout le monde."”

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Diogène Laërce, Vies, doctrines et sentences des philosophes illustres

“Sur le visage", et comme l'autre s'en étonnait, il expliqua : "parce que bientôt ce qui est en bas sera en haut.”

Diogène de Sinope

Le jour où Xéniade lui demanda comment il voulait être enterré.
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“On lui demandait s'il avait valet et servante, il répondit non. "Mais si tu meurs, lui dit-on, qui t'enterrera?" - "Celui qui aura envie de ma maison" dit-il.”

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Diogène Laërce, Vies, doctrines et sentences des philosophes illustres

“Diogène, fils du banquier Ikésios, naquit à Sinope. Il s'enfuit quand son père, qui tenait une banque publique, fabriqua de la fausse monnaie.”

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“Plût au ciel qu'il suffit aussi de se frotter le ventre pour ne plus avoir faim!”

Diogène de Sinope

Un jour où il se masturbait sur la place publique
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faim

“Quand le héraut lui demanda ce qu'il savait faire, il répondit : "Commander", et cria au héraut : "Demande donc qui veut acheter un maître." Puis, montrant du doigt un Corinthien richement vêtu, il dit : "Vends moi à cet homme, je vois qu'il a besoin d'un maître." Xéniade l'acheta, lui confia l'éducation de ses enfants, le nomma intendant de sa maison, et Diogène mit de l'ordre partout.”

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maîtresse , hommes , enfants , éducation

“Alexandre le rencontra et lui dit : "Demande-moi ce que tu veux et tu l'auras." Il lui répondit : "Ôte-toi de mon soleil!"”

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soleil

“Voyant le fils d'une catin jeter des pierres à la foule : "Fais attention, lui dit-il, tu pourrais blesser ton père."”

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“Alexandre le rencontrant un jour lui dit : "Je suis le grand roi Alexandre". Diogène alors se présenta : "Et moi, je suis Diogène, le chien." On lui demanda pourquoi il était appelé le chien : "parce que je caresse ceux qui me donnent, j'aboie contre ceux qui ne me donnent pas, et je mors ceux qui sont méchants.”

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chienne , chiens

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“Quand quelqu'un lui rappela que les habitants de Sinope l'avaient condamné à l'exil, il répondit: "Et moi je les ai condamnés à rester chez eux"”

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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

Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 54
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

“Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "'Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."”

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Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 27
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

“It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.”

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Stobaeus, iii. 3. 51
Quoted by Stobaeus

“The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.”

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Stobaeus, iv. 29a. 19
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“Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Behold Plato's man!"”

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Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 40
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“When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, "And I sentenced them to stay at home."”

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Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 49
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“He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."”

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Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 49
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

“When people laughed at him because he walked backward beneath the portico, he said to them: "Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?"”

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Stobaeus, iii. 4. 83
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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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From Plutarch, Alexander, 14. Cf. Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 38, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, v. 32
Quoted by Plutarch

“To one who asked what was the proper time for lunch, he said, "If a rich man, when you will; if a poor man, when you can."”

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Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 40
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

“One day, observing a child drinking out of his hands, he cast away the cup from his wallet with the words, "A child has beaten me in plainness of living."”

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Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 37
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

“Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.”

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Stobaeus, iv. 32a. 19
Quoted by Stobaeus

“Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief."”

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Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 45
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

“He was breakfasting in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of "dog." "It is you who are dogs," cried he, "when you stand round and watch me at my breakfast."”

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Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 61
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

“On reaching Athens he fell in with Antisthenes. Being repulsed by him, because he never welcomed pupils, by sheer persistence Diogenes wore him out. Once when he stretched out his staff against him, the pupil offered his head with the words, “Strike, for you will find no wood hard enough to keep me away from you, so long as I think you've something to say."”

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Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 21,
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“He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human."”

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Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 41. This line is frequently translated as "I am looking for an honest man."
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

“If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.”

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Plutarch, Moralia, 74C
Quoted by Plutarch

“No man is hurt but by himself.”

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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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Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 33, 43
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

“Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.”

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Plutarch, On Exile, 12 (Moralia, 604D)
Quoted by Plutarch

“Perdiccas threatened to put him to death unless he came to him, "That's nothing wonderful," Diogenes said, "for a beetle or a tarantula would do the same."”

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Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 44
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

“Diogenes the cynic, seeing one of the so-called freedmen pluming himself, while many heartily congratulated him, marveled at the absence of reason and discernment. “A man might as well,” he said, “proclaim that one of his servants became a grammarian, a geometrician, or musician, when he has no idea whatever of the art.” For as the proclamation cannot make them men of knowledge, so neither can it make them free.”

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Philo, Every Good Man is Free, F. Colson, trans. (1941), 157
Quoted by Philo

“Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.”

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Stobaeus, iv. 31c. 88
Quoted by Stobaeus

“When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people."”

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Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 74
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“He was going into a theatre, meeting face to face those who were coming out, and being asked why, "This," he said, "is what I practise doing all my life."”

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Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 64
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

“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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Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 43. Cf. Plutarch, Moralia, 70CD.
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

“Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.”

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Stobaeus, iv. 32a. 11
Quoted by Stobaeus

“Thieves and fighters do not come from eaters of barley-bread; but informers and tyrants come from meat-eaters.”

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Porphyry, On Abstinence from Killing Animals https://books.google.it/books?id=B5ojAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA0 as translated by Gillian Clark (2000), 1, 47, 3
Quoted by Porphyry