I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
DIOGENESThe mob is the mother of tyrants.
More Diogenes Quotes
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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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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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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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In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
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Behold! I’ve brought you a man.
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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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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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It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
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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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He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about-I am looking for a human.
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We have two ears and one tongue so that we could listen more and talk less.
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
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