Behold! I’ve brought you a man.
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You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
More Diogenes Quotes
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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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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
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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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People who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments; the sound is all they have to offer.
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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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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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The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
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