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.
DIOGENESOther dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.
More Diogenes Quotes
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The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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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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It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
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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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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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It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
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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 takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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No man is hurt but by himself.
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To one who asked what was the proper time for lunch, he said, “If a rich man, when you will; if a poor man, when you can.”
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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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The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
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I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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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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