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Diogenes Quotes

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The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master  (Diogenes Quotes) Calumny is only the noise of madmen  (Diogenes Quotes) There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool  (Diogenes Quotes) A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies  (Diogenes Quotes) The great thieves lead away the little thief  (Diogenes Quotes) Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards  (Diogenes Quotes) 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  (Diogenes Quotes) The mob is the mother of tyrants  (Diogenes Quotes) It takes a wise man to discover a wise man  (Diogenes Quotes) The foundation of every state is the education of its youth  (Diogenes Quotes) He has the most who is most content with the least  (Diogenes Quotes) If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes  (Diogenes Quotes) We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less  (Diogenes Quotes) 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  (Diogenes Quotes) Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music  (Diogenes Quotes) When two friends part they should lock up each other’s secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments  (Diogenes Quotes) It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little  (Diogenes Quotes) 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  (Diogenes Quotes) Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing  (Diogenes Quotes) Diogenes struck the father when the son swore, because he taught him no better  (Diogenes Quotes) The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life ; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death  (Diogenes Quotes) Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all  (Diogenes Quotes) Diogenes found more rest in his tub than Alexander on his throne  (Diogenes Quotes) In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face  (Diogenes Quotes) You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself  (Diogenes Quotes) When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can  (Diogenes Quotes) I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough  (Diogenes Quotes) It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours  (Diogenes Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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  (Diogenes Quotes)
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