“He has the most who is most content with the least.”

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.

I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

People who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments; the sound is all they have to offer.

You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.

We come into the world alone and we die alone.

Behold! I’ve brought you a man.

No man is hurt but by himself.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.

I am a citizen of the world.

If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

To one who asked what was the proper time for lunch, he said, “If a rich man, when you will; if a poor man, when you can.”

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.

The book of nature is a fine and large piece of tapestry rolled up, which we are not able to see all at once, but must be content to wait for the discovery of its beauty, and symmetry, little by little, as it graduallly comes to be more and more unfolded, or displayed.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

When I stopped caring about every other content creator, I became the best one.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.