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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Diogenes

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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Enemy Friend Good Man Preserve Task
One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
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Mind Original Quote Thought Worth
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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Deep Discover Man Philosophy Wise
You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
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Blame Philosophy Teacher Yourself
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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Bones Father Human Philosophy Slave
If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
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Banish Belly Easy Hunger Masturbate Rub
The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
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Art Deep Master Perspective Philosophy Rule Slave
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
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Belong Drink Myself Wine
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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Deep Give Myself Nothing Remove Sun Sunshine Yourself
I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
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Dog Himself Man Myself One Liner Perspective Piss Surprise
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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Dog Few Good Great Philosophy Reward
In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
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Face Home Man Place Rich Spit
People who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments; the sound is all they have to offer.
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Deep Instrument Music People Sound Talk
The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
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Beautiful Freedom Speech World
Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.
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Bite Dog Enemy Friend Perspective
When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, “And I sentenced them to stay at home.
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Exile Himself Home People Perspective Stay

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