Diogenes Quotes
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The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
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Love comes with hunger.
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To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
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The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.
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Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing what they have with what the envious person has, rather than the envious person realising they have more than what they could have and certainly more than some others and being grateful. It is really just an inability to get a correct perspective on their lives.
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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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Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief."
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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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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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The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
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To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.
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What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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Fools! You think of "god" as a sentient being. God is the word used to represent a force. This force created nothing, it just helps things along. It does not answer prayers, although it may make you think of a way to solve a problem. It has the power to influence you, but not decide for you.
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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
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Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.
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The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
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We have complicated every simple gift of the gods.
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Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world."
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I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.
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Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
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When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.