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As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Diogenes

I am a citizen of the world.
DIOGENES

Citizen Myself World
The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
DIOGENES

Beautiful Freedom Speech World
Behold! I’ve brought you a man.
DIOGENES

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

Help Philosophy Poverty Practice Reason Teaching
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
DIOGENES

Dog Few Good Great Philosophy Reward
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
DIOGENES

Feel Hurt Philosophy
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
DIOGENES

Mob Mother Tyrant
I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
DIOGENES

Bark Bite Dog Greedy Kind Myself
You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
DIOGENES

Blame Philosophy Teacher Yourself
Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.
DIOGENES

Bite Dog Enemy Friend Perspective
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
DIOGENES

God Little Man Nothing Philosophy Privilege
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.
DIOGENES

Deep Give Myself Nothing Remove Sun Sunshine Yourself
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
DIOGENES

Education Foundation State Youth
People who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments; the sound is all they have to offer.
DIOGENES

Deep Instrument Music People Sound Talk
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
If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
DIOGENES

Banish Belly Easy Hunger Masturbate Rub

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