Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.
DIOGENESPeople who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments; the sound is all they have to offer.
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In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
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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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People who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments; the sound is all they have to offer.
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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
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It takes a wise man to discover a wise 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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I am a citizen of the world.
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The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
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I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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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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The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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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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It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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