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• When Zeno was asked what a friend was, he replied, "Another I.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Zeno, xix...
• Asked from what country he came, he replied, "I am a citizen of the world.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, vi...
• Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, vi...
• When asked what he would take to let a man give him a blow on the head, he said, "A helmet.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, vi...
• When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, "Not to unlearn what you have learned.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Antisthenes, iv...
• When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, "To know one's self.
  And what was easy, "To advise another." -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Thales, ix...
• Being asked whether it was better to marry or not, he replied, "Whichever you do, you will repent it.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, xvi...
• A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please
  and if you are a poor man, whenever you can." -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, vi...
• He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Pythagoras, vi...