People who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments; the sound is all they have to offer.
DIOGENESI am a citizen of the world.
More Diogenes Quotes
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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
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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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We come into the world alone and we die alone.
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Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.
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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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The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
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We have two ears and one tongue so that we could listen more and talk less.
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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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In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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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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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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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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