“Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture”
Diogenes of Sinope
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“He used to reason as follows: 'Everything belongs to the gods; the wise are friends of the gods; friends hold all things in common; ergo , everything belongs to the wise.' Diogenes Laërtius , vi. 37, as reported in Diogenes the Cynic: Sayings and Anecdotes as translated by Robin Hard ( Oxford : 2012), p. 13”
“A child has beaten me in plainness of living.”
“Come, see that you obey orders.”
“Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves .”
“Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.”
“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.”
“If you are to be kept right , you must possess either good friends or red”
“Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip , but Diogenes when he himself pleases. Plutarch , On Exile , 12”
“Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine .”