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DiogenesDiogenes Blushing is the color of virtue.
DiogenesDiogenes He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about-I am looking for a human.
DiogenesDiogenes To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
DiogenesDiogenes The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
DiogenesDiogenes 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.
DiogenesDiogenes He has the most who is most content with the least.
DiogenesDiogenes I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
DiogenesDiogenes The mob is the mother of tyrants.
DiogenesDiogenes People who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments; the sound is all they have to offer.
DiogenesDiogenes You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
DiogenesDiogenes We come into the world alone and we die alone.
DiogenesDiogenes Behold! I’ve brought you a man.
DiogenesDiogenes Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
DiogenesDiogenes One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
DiogenesDiogenes I am a citizen of the world.
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