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.
DIOGENESTo become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
More Diogenes Quotes
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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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In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
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Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
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We come into the world alone and we die alone.
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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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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
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No man is hurt but by himself.
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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
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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 most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
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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.
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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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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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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What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
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