We come into the world alone and we die alone.
DIOGENESEducation gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.
More Diogenes Quotes
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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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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
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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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He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about-I am looking for a human.
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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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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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 is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
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Behold! I’ve brought you a man.
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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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The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
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