Diogenes Quotes About Slaves

Quotes about: Slaves

• The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

  Diogenes

  Art, Slavery, Slave

  Herakleitos, Diogenes (2011). “Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport”, p.42, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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

  Diogenes

  Order, Slave, Said

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

• When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves."

  Diogenes

  Men, Games, Defeat

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

• When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people."

  Diogenes

  People, Slave, Ruling

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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