You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
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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.”
More Diogenes Quotes
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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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It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
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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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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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Behold! I’ve brought you a man.
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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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In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.
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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
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