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.
DIOGENESIf I gained one thing from philosophy is that at the very least, I am well prepared to confront any change in fortune.
More Diogenes Quotes
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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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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
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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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We come into the world alone and we die alone.
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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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No man is hurt but by himself.
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Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
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What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to 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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The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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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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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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Behold! I’ve brought you a man.
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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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