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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The mob is the mother of tyrants.
More Diogenes Quotes
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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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Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.
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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
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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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We have two ears and one tongue so that we could listen more and talk less.
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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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What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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Behold! I’ve brought you a man.
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