We have two ears and one tongue so that we could listen more and talk less.
DIOGENESBlushing is the color of virtue.
More Diogenes Quotes
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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We come into the world alone and we die alone.
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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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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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He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about-I am looking for a human.
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What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
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No man is hurt but by himself.
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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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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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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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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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