Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
DIOGENESIf only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
More Diogenes Quotes
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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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To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
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No man is hurt but by himself.
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What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
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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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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
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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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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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We come into the world alone and we die alone.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
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Behold! I’ve brought you a man.
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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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Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
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