Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
DIOGENESThe mob is the mother of tyrants.
More Diogenes Quotes
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In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
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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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He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about-I am looking for a human.
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If I gained one thing from philosophy is that at the very least, I am well prepared to confront any change in fortune.
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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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If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
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The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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We come into the world alone and we die alone.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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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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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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We have two ears and one tongue so that we could listen more and talk less.
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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
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