Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
DIOGENESHe has the most who is most content with the least.
More Diogenes Quotes
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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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The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
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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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People who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments; the sound is all they have to offer.
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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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Behold! I’ve brought you a man.
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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
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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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In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
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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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The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
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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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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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