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In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.

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
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
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
The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
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Effect Fret Gall Good Honest Man Yourself
We come into the world alone and we die alone.
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Alone Come Death World
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.
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Deep Give Myself Nothing Remove Sun Sunshine Yourself
You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
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Blame Philosophy Teacher Yourself
Blushing is the color of virtue.
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Blush Color Virtue
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
No man is hurt but by himself.
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Deep Himself Hurt Man One Liner
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
The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
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Beautiful Freedom Speech World
I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
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Dog Himself Man Myself One Liner Perspective Piss Surprise
We have two ears and one tongue so that we could listen more and talk less.
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Ear Listen Talk Tongue
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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Education Foundation State Youth
I am a citizen of the world.
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Citizen Myself World
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
One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
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Mind Original Quote Thought Worth
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
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
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Feel Hurt Philosophy
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
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 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
The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
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Art Deep Master Perspective Philosophy Rule Slave
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

In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.

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