To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
DIOGENESWhat I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
More Diogenes Quotes
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You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
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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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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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No man is hurt but by himself.
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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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People who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments; the sound is all they have to offer.
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What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
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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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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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We come into the world alone and we die alone.
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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.
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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