You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
DIOGENESI have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.
More Diogenes Quotes
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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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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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To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
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We come into the world alone and we die alone.
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Behold! I’ve brought you a man.
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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
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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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No man is hurt but by himself.
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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
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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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It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
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Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.
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I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
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I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.
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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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The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
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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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In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
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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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Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.
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