The mob is the mother of tyrants.
DIOGENESIf only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
More Diogenes Quotes
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The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
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We have two ears and one tongue so that we could listen more and talk less.
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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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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Behold! I’ve brought you a man.
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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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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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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
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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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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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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
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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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If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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