The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
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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Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.
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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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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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What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
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If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
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I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
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In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
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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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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 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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