The mob is the mother of tyrants.
DIOGENESWe come into the world alone and we die alone.
More Diogenes Quotes
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
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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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No man is hurt but by himself.
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Behold! I’ve brought you a man.
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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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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
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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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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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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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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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If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
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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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