Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.
DIOGENESDogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
More Diogenes Quotes
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Behold! I’ve brought you a man.
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We have two ears and one tongue so that we could listen more and talk less.
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The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
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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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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
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I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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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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You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
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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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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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The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
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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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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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