He has the most who is most content with the least.
DIOGENESSelf-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.
More Diogenes Quotes
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, “And I sentenced them to stay at home.
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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
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No man is hurt but by himself.
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We have two ears and one tongue so that we could listen more and talk less.
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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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I am a citizen of the world.
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It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
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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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The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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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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