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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?

Diogenes

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
We come into the world alone and we die alone.
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Alone Come Death World
Behold! I’ve brought you a man.
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Brought Man Yourself
He has the most who is most content with the least.
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Content Deep Himself Least One Liner Philosophy
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
No man is hurt but by himself.
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Deep Himself Hurt Man One Liner
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
It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
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Different Head Mad Myself Perspective Yourself
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
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
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
Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.
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Comfort Deep Education Old Ornament Poor Rich Sober Young
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
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
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
The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
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Beautiful Freedom Speech World

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