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You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.

Diogenes

It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
DIOGENES

Different Head Mad Myself Perspective Yourself
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
DIOGENES

Deep Discover Man Philosophy Wise
We have two ears and one tongue so that we could listen more and talk less.
DIOGENES

Ear Listen Talk Tongue
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
DIOGENES

Belong Drink Myself Wine
The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
DIOGENES

Beautiful Freedom Speech World
I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
DIOGENES

Dog Himself Man Myself One Liner Perspective Piss Surprise
In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
DIOGENES

Face Home Man Place Rich Spit
Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.
DIOGENES

Help Philosophy Poverty Practice Reason Teaching
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.
DIOGENES

Exile Himself Home People Perspective Stay
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
DIOGENES

Feel Hurt Philosophy
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
DIOGENES

God Little Man Nothing Philosophy Privilege
One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
DIOGENES

Mind Original Quote Thought Worth
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.
DIOGENES

Bones Father Human Philosophy Slave
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.
DIOGENES

Deep Give Myself Nothing Remove Sun Sunshine Yourself
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
DIOGENES

Dog Few Good Great Philosophy Reward
To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
DIOGENES

Criticize Deep Educate Yourself

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