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Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

Diogenes

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

Criticize Deep Educate Yourself
The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
DIOGENES

Effect Fret Gall Good Honest Man Yourself
I am a citizen of the world.
DIOGENES

Citizen Myself World
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
He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about-I am looking for a human.
DIOGENES

Day Himself Human Lamp One Liner Philosophy
In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
DIOGENES

Face Home Man Place Rich Spit
Behold! I’ve brought you a man.
DIOGENES

Brought Man Yourself
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
DIOGENES

Dog Few Good Great Philosophy Reward
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
Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.
DIOGENES

Bite Dog Enemy Friend Perspective
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
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.
DIOGENES

Deep Give Myself Nothing Remove Sun Sunshine Yourself
The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
DIOGENES

Beautiful Freedom Speech World
I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
DIOGENES

Dog Himself Man Myself One Liner Perspective Piss Surprise
People who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments; the sound is all they have to offer.
DIOGENES

Deep Instrument Music People Sound Talk

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