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.
DIOGENESYou will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
More Diogenes Quotes
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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 am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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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 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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People who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments; the sound is all they have to offer.
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We come into the world alone and we die alone.
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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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The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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No man is hurt but by himself.
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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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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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