I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
DIOGENESWe come into the world alone and we die alone.
More Diogenes Quotes
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Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
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The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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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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As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
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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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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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Behold! I’ve brought you a man.
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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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The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
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When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, “And I sentenced them to stay at home.
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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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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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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 only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
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