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“Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
― Selected Writings
― Selected Writings
“Those who find the world something worthy of praise or who congratulate themselves for having been born in it are either intellectually blind or morally perverse.”
― Diogenes The Cynic: The War Against The World
― Diogenes The Cynic: The War Against The World
“In the eyes of those who anxiously seek perfection, a work is never truly completed—a word that for them has no sense—but abandoned.”
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“When he saw the child of some prostitute throw stones at a crowd, Diogenes shouted to him, "Take care that you don't hit your father!”
― Diogenes The Cynic: The War Against The World
― Diogenes The Cynic: The War Against The World
“Diogenes the Cynic was an ascetic by choice. He rejected his family's bourgeois status, got himself exiled from his native city, and went about in a threadbare cloak with only the barest possessions, a bag for his crust of bread and a cup for scooping water from fountains. When one day he saw a boy drinking from his hands, he smashed the cup, disgusted by his own love of luxury.”
― Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero
― Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero
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