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.
DIOGENESIt is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
More Diogenes Quotes
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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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He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about-I am looking for a human.
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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Behold! I’ve brought you a man.
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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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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
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What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
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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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To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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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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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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