Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.
DIOGENESBehold! I’ve brought you a man.
More Diogenes Quotes
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No man is hurt but by himself.
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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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If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
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In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
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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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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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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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It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
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The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
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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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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
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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 pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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