Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
DIOGENESTo 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.”
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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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You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
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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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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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It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
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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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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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He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about-I am looking for a human.
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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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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
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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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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
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The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
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In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
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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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