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Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.

Diogenes

He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about-I am looking for a human.
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Day Himself Human Lamp One Liner Philosophy
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
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Belong Drink Myself Wine
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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Dog Few Good Great Philosophy Reward
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
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God Little Man Nothing Philosophy Privilege
I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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Bark Bite Dog Greedy Kind Myself
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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Deep Discover Man Philosophy Wise
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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Bones Father Human Philosophy Slave
I am a citizen of the world.
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Citizen Myself World
It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
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Different Head Mad Myself Perspective Yourself
Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.
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Bite Dog Enemy Friend Perspective
In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
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Face Home Man Place Rich Spit
No man is hurt but by himself.
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Deep Himself Hurt Man One Liner
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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Deep Himself Lunch Man Poor Proper Rich Time Yourself
You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
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Blame Philosophy Teacher Yourself
When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, “And I sentenced them to stay at home.
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Exile Himself Home People Perspective Stay
Blushing is the color of virtue.
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Blush Color Virtue

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