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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

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 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
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
I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
DIOGENES

Bark Bite Dog Greedy Kind Myself
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
To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
DIOGENES

Criticize Deep Educate Yourself
One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
DIOGENES

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.
DIOGENES

Bones Father Human Philosophy Slave
We come into the world alone and we die alone.
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Alone Come Death World
Blushing is the color of virtue.
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Blush Color Virtue
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
Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
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Poverty Teaching Virtue
He has the most who is most content with the least.
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Content Deep Himself Least One Liner Philosophy
No man is hurt but by himself.
DIOGENES

Deep Himself Hurt Man One Liner
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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Mob Mother Tyrant
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
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
If I gained one thing from philosophy is that at the very least, I am well prepared to confront any change in fortune.
DIOGENES

Change Confront Fortune Gain Least Myself Philosophy Prepare
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
We have two ears and one tongue so that we could listen more and talk less.
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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
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
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
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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Deep Discover Man Philosophy Wise
The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
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Beautiful Freedom Speech World
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
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
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Belong Drink Myself Wine

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