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Diogenes is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers four times a year in the field of philosophy and the humanities . The journal's editors are Maurice Aymard ( Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales ) and Luca Maria Scarantino ( IULM ...
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Diogenes Laertius also relates of him, that one day meeting a man who was cruelly beating a dog, the Samian sage instantly detected in the piteous howls of the poor beast the cries of a dear friend of his long since deceased, and earnestly and successfully interceded for his rescue.
Willy McGilly, Diogenes Pontifex, John Pandemonium, Aloysius Shiplap, names like that.
As a sidenote, I learned that Alexius befriended the sons of Romanus IV Diogenes.
It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubable men in town.
While Diogenes was making the high-speed transfer, the Earther took a last look around.
The Stadtholder, Diogenes, the two caitiffs, all standing round the one horse.
Diogenes, also, another pupil of Anaximenes, said that a certain air was the original substance of things out of which all things were produced, but that it was possessed of a divine reason, without which nothing could be produced from it.
It's cat piss under the bridge, as we used to say at the old Diogenes Club.
He was this much I knew by some seven years the senior in age to my great friend, and was a founder member of the Diogenes Club, that peculiar institution whose members are ever forbidden to converse with one another.
Diogenes riposted with a quaint, inane laugh, "as to deny me a tankard of Spanish wine, which might put thee in possession of my secret — a secret, good Jan, worth yearly pensions and more to his lordship.