If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
DIOGENESPoverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
More Diogenes Quotes
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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
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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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Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.
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We come into the world alone and we die alone.
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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
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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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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.”
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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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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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The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
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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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Behold! I’ve brought you a man.
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The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
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