He has the most who is most content with the least.
DIOGENESTo 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.”
More Diogenes Quotes
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The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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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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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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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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In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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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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It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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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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People who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments; the sound is all they have to offer.
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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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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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