What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
DIOGENESPeople who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments; the sound is all they have to offer.
More Diogenes Quotes
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Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
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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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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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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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If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
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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 mob is the mother of tyrants.
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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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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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We have two ears and one tongue so that we could listen more and talk less.
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I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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Behold! I’ve brought you a man.
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