It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people.".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.".Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world.".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.".56, as reported in Diogenes the Cynic: Sayings and Anecdotes as translated by Robin Hard ( Oxford: 2012), p. When asked why people give to beggars but not to philosophers, he replied, 'Because they expect they may become lame and blind, but never that they will become philosophers.'.To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay.".He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused.".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.".As quoted in Encarta Book of Quotations (2000) edited by Bill Swainson, p.Variant: If only it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.When scolded for masturbating in public, he said "I wish it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing my belly.".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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