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To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.

Diogenes

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
He has the most who is most content with the least.
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Content Deep Himself Least One Liner Philosophy
Blushing is the color of virtue.
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Blush Color Virtue
We have two ears and one tongue so that we could listen more and talk less.
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Ear Listen Talk Tongue
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
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Feel Hurt Philosophy
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
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
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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Deep Discover Man Philosophy Wise
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
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 a citizen of the world.
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Citizen Myself World
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
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
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
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 mob is the mother of tyrants.
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Mob Mother Tyrant

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