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It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.

Diogenes

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
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
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
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
One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
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Mind Original Quote Thought Worth
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
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
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
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
Blushing is the color of virtue.
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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.
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Enemy Friend Good Man Preserve Task
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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Deep Discover Man Philosophy Wise
We come into the world alone and we die alone.
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Alone Come Death World
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
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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Mob Mother Tyrant
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

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