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Diogenes Quote - Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.

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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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
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