The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
DIOGENESDogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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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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If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
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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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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
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In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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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 foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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We come into the world alone and we die alone.
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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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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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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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