Best Quotes by Diogenes (Top 10)
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We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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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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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
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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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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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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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The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
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