Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
DIOGENESTo become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
More Diogenes Quotes
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You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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Behold! I’ve brought you a man.
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To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
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In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
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What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
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Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
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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.
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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
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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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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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I am a citizen of the world.
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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