Diogenes Quotes
Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.
Diogenes, 412 BC-322 BC, Greek Philosopher, Quoted in Joannes Stobaeus, Anthologion, iv. 31c
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See {640733} for an English political leader’s similar view.
See {629121} for the Christian religious quotation regarding the "eye of a needle."
She had an affair with the scholar Pete Abelard. The old illustration shows the two of them together.
For years people have noticed that many of the rich are not very deserving people by charater, talent, training of other virtues. However, if one believed in a beneficent God, this was hard to explain. One solution was to conclude that God did not value riches very highly.
Diogenes (/daɪˈɒdʒɪniːz/ dy-OJ-in-eez; Ancient Greek: Διογένης, romanized: Diogénēs [di.oɡénɛ͜ɛs]), also known as Diogenes the Cynic (Διογένης ὁ Κυνικός, Diogénēs ho Kynikós), was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy. He was born in Sinope, an Ionian colony on the Black Sea coast of modern-day Turkey, in 412 or 404 BC and died at Corinth in 323 BC.
