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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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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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The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
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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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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
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I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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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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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
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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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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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If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
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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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