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Szinópéi Diogenész idézet

Szinopéi Diogenész, gyakorta csak Diogenész , görög filozófus. Platón „őrjöngő Szókratésznak” nevezte. Wikipedia  

✵ 404 i.e. – 322 i.e.
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Szinópéi Diogenész: 54 idézet6 Kedvelés

Szinópéi Diogenész híres idézetei

„Volt idő, amikor én is olyan voltam, mint te most. De amilyen én most vagyok, olyan te sose leszel.”

Szinópéi Diogenész

„Minden dolog az isteneké. A bölcsek az istenek barátai, a barátok javai pedig közösek. Ennélfogva minden dolog a bölcseké.”

Szinópéi Diogenész

„Diogenész egyszer alamizsnáért könyörgött egy szobortól, és amikor megkérdezték tőle, miért tette, azt válaszolta: "Hogy gyakoroljam, milyen ha elutasítanak".”

Szinópéi Diogenész

„Hé emberek!…Embereket hívtam, nem mocskokat.”

Szinópéi Diogenész

Szinópéi Diogenész Idézetek az emberekről

„Embert keresek.”

Szinópéi Diogenész

„Plátón úgy írta le az embert mint kétlábú, tollatlan állat, és ezért felmagasztalták. Diogenész megkopasztott egy csirkét, és bevitte egy előadóterembe azzal a szöveggel, hogy "Íme, Platón embere!".”

Szinópéi Diogenész

„Amikor megkérdezték tőle, hogy Görögországban hol látott jó embereket, azt válaszolta: "Jó embereket sehol, de jó fiúkat Spártában".”

Szinópéi Diogenész

„Amikor az emberek kinevették, mert hátrafelé ment a portikusz alatt, azt mondta nekik: "Nem szégyellitek magatokat, ti, akik a létezés egész útján visszafelé jártok, és engem hibáztattok, amiért visszafelé járok a sétányon?".”

Szinópéi Diogenész

„Egyiküknek, aki megkérdezte, hogy mi a megfelelő idő az ebédhez, azt mondta: "Ha gazdag ember, akkor amikor akarod; ha szegény ember, akkor amikor tudsz."”

Szinópéi Diogenész

Szinópéi Diogenész idézetek

„Az egész világnak a polgára vagyok.”

Szinópéi Diogenész

„Ne álld el előlem a napot.”

Szinópéi Diogenész

„Ó, te boldogtalan, hát nem tudod, hogy tisztító szertartások révén a bűneidtől ugyanúgy nem szabadulsz meg, mint a helyesírási hibáidtól?”

Szinópéi Diogenész

„Arra a kérdésre, hogy melyik bort inná a legszívesebben, azt válaszolta: "Azt, amelyikért mások fizetnek".”

Szinópéi Diogenész

„Elfogták és Fülöp király elé hurcolták, és amikor megkérdezték tőle, hogy ki ő, azt válaszolta: "A telhetetlen fösvénységed szemlélője".”

Szinópéi Diogenész

„Egyszer látta, hogy egy templom tisztviselői elvezetnek valakit, aki ellopott egy tálat, amely a kincstárnokoké volt, és azt mondta: "A nagy tolvajok elvezetik a kis tolvajt".”

Szinópéi Diogenész

Szinópéi Diogenész: Idézetek angolul

“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 of Sinope

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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Diogenes of Sinope

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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Diogenes of Sinope

Stobaeus, iv. 29a. 19
Quoted by Stobaeus

“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 of Sinope

Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 40
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

“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 of Sinope

Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 49
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

“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 of Sinope

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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Diogenes of Sinope

Stobaeus, iii. 4. 83
Quoted by Stobaeus

“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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Diogenes of Sinope

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 of Sinope

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 of Sinope

Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 37
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 of Sinope

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 of Sinope

Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 21,
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

“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 of Sinope

Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 45
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

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

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Diogenes of Sinope

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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Diogenes of Sinope

Plutarch, Moralia, 74C
Quoted by Plutarch

“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 of Sinope

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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Diogenes of Sinope

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 of Sinope

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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Diogenes of Sinope

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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Diogenes of Sinope

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 of Sinope

Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 74
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

“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 of Sinope

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 of Sinope

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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Diogenes of Sinope

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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Diogenes of Sinope

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

“To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders."”

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Diogenes of Sinope

Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 36
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

“Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.”

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Diogenes of Sinope

Stobaeus, iii. 22. 40
Quoted by Stobaeus

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