He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about-I am looking for a human.
DIOGENESPoverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
More Diogenes Quotes
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We come into the world alone and we die alone.
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The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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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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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
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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 have two ears and one tongue so that we could listen more and talk less.
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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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In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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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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It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
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What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
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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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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
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