What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
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More Diogenes Quotes
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The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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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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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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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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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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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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You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
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Behold! I’ve brought you a man.
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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 art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
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