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If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

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
If I gained one thing from philosophy is that at the very least, I am well prepared to confront any change in fortune.
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Change Confront Fortune Gain Least Myself Philosophy Prepare
The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
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Effect Fret Gall Good Honest Man Yourself
No man is hurt but by himself.
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Deep Himself Hurt Man One Liner
To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
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Criticize Deep Educate Yourself
I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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Bark Bite Dog Greedy Kind Myself
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
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
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
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
He has the most who is most content with the least.
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Content Deep Himself Least One Liner Philosophy
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
Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
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Poverty Teaching Virtue
He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about-I am looking for a human.
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Day Himself Human Lamp One Liner Philosophy
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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Dog Few Good Great Philosophy Reward

If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

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