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.
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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I am a citizen of the world.
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We come into the world alone and we die alone.
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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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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 art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
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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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No man is hurt but by himself.
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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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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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People who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments; the sound is all they have to offer.
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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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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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