You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
DIOGENESTo become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
More Diogenes Quotes
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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
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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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No man is hurt but by himself.
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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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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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Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.
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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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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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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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To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
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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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The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
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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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