Home » Quote » Diogenes of Sinope » „Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.“ „Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.“ — Diogenes of Sinope Related quotes „Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.“ — Diogenes of Sinope „Through such impressions one gathers oneself, wins oneself back from the exacting multiplicity, which speaks and chatters there (and how talkative it is!), and one slowly learns to recognize the very few Things in which something eternal endures that one can love and something solitary that one can gently take part in.“ — Rainer Maria Rilke „To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous.“ — Confucius „To master the virtue of the long sword is to govern the world and oneself, thus the long sword is the basis of strategy. The principle is "strategy by means of the long sword". If he attains the virtue of the long sword, one man can beat ten men. Just as one man can beat ten, so a hundred men can beat a thousand, and a thousand men can beat ten thousand. In my strategy, one man is the same as ten thousand, so this strategy is the complete warrior's craft.“ — Miyamoto Musashi