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To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.

Diogenes

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.
DIOGENES

Deep Give Myself Nothing Remove Sun Sunshine Yourself
Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.
DIOGENES

Help Philosophy Poverty Practice Reason Teaching
In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
DIOGENES

Face Home Man Place Rich Spit
Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
DIOGENES

Poverty Teaching Virtue
We come into the world alone and we die alone.
DIOGENES

Alone Come Death World
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.
DIOGENES

Bones Father Human Philosophy Slave
One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
DIOGENES

Mind Original Quote Thought Worth
No man is hurt but by himself.
DIOGENES

Deep Himself Hurt Man One Liner
I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
DIOGENES

Dog Himself Man Myself One Liner Perspective Piss Surprise
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
DIOGENES

God Little Man Nothing Philosophy Privilege
The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
DIOGENES

Beautiful Freedom Speech World
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.
DIOGENES

Exile Himself Home People Perspective Stay
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
DIOGENES

Dog Few Good Great Philosophy Reward
If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
DIOGENES

Banish Belly Easy Hunger Masturbate Rub
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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Deep Himself Lunch Man Poor Proper Rich Time Yourself
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
DIOGENES

Belong Drink Myself Wine

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