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

— Diogenes of Sinope

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Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.

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

Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world."

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

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

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