He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about-I am looking for a human.
DIOGENESIt takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
More Diogenes Quotes
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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 mob is the mother of tyrants.
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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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The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
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Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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We come into the world alone and we die alone.
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I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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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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People who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments; the sound is all they have to offer.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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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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The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
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It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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