The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
DIOGENESI am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
More Diogenes Quotes
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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.
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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
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The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
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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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If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
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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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We have two ears and one tongue so that we could listen more and talk less.
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No man is hurt but by himself.
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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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We come into the world alone and we die alone.
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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
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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 not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
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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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You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
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