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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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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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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Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
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No man is hurt but by himself.
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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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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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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The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
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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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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
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I am a citizen of the world.
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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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