Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
DIOGENESSelf-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.
More Diogenes Quotes
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The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
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If I gained one thing from philosophy is that at the very least, I am well prepared to confront any change in fortune.
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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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To one who asked what was the proper time for lunch, he said, “If a rich man, when you will; if a poor man, when you can.”
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He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about-I am looking for a human.
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Behold! I’ve brought you a man.
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We have two ears and one tongue so that we could listen more and talk less.
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It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
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Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
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The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
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Alexander the Great found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained,I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave.
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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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No man is hurt but by himself.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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