Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
DIOGENESThe foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
More Diogenes Quotes
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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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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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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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What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
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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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People who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments; the sound is all they have to offer.
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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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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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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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We come into the world alone and we die alone.
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The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
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