I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

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• Diogenes:

  The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

• Diogenes:

  The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

• Diogenes:

  Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

• Diogenes:

  The mob is the mother of tyrants.

• Diogenes:

  Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

• Diogenes:

  Blushing is the color of virtue.

• Diogenes:

  I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

• Diogenes:

  Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

• Diogenes:

  What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

• Diogenes:

  There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.