Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
DIOGENESThe most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
More Diogenes Quotes
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Behold! I’ve brought you a man.
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We come into the world alone and we die alone.
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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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Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.
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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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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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People who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments; the sound is all they have to offer.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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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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The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
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I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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No man is hurt but by himself.
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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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