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We have two ears and one tongue so that we could listen more and talk less.

Diogenes

I am a citizen of the world.
DIOGENES

Citizen Myself World
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
DIOGENES

Belong Drink Myself Wine
We have two ears and one tongue so that we could listen more and talk less.
DIOGENES

Ear Listen Talk Tongue
You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
DIOGENES

Blame Philosophy Teacher Yourself
Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.
DIOGENES

Comfort Deep Education Old Ornament Poor Rich Sober Young
The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
DIOGENES

Beautiful Freedom Speech World
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
DIOGENES

God Little Man Nothing Philosophy Privilege
Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
DIOGENES

Poverty Teaching Virtue
He has the most who is most content with the least.
DIOGENES

Content Deep Himself Least One Liner Philosophy
We come into the world alone and we die alone.
DIOGENES

Alone Come Death World
If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
DIOGENES

Banish Belly Easy Hunger Masturbate Rub
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
DIOGENES

Mob Mother Tyrant
Blushing is the color of virtue.
DIOGENES

Blush Color Virtue
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.
DIOGENES

Enemy Friend Good Man Preserve Task
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.
DIOGENES

Bones Father Human Philosophy Slave
Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.
DIOGENES

Bite Dog Enemy Friend Perspective

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