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Behold! I’ve brought you a man.

Diogenes

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
Behold! I’ve brought you a man.
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Brought Man Yourself
Blushing is the color of virtue.
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Blush Color Virtue
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
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
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Belong Drink Myself Wine
To one who asked what was the proper time for lunch, he said, “If a rich man, when you will; if a poor man, when you can.”
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Deep Himself Lunch Man Poor Proper Rich Time 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
Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.
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Help Philosophy Poverty Practice Reason Teaching
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
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
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
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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Dog Few Good Great Philosophy Reward
One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
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Mind Original Quote Thought Worth
I am a citizen of the world.
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Citizen Myself World
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
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God Little Man Nothing Philosophy Privilege
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

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