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The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

Diogenes

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
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
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
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
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Belong Drink Myself Wine
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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Mob Mother Tyrant
If I gained one thing from philosophy is that at the very least, I am well prepared to confront any change in fortune.
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Change Confront Fortune Gain Least Myself Philosophy Prepare
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
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
Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
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Poverty Teaching Virtue
I am a citizen of the world.
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Citizen Myself World
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 foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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Education Foundation State Youth
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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Dog Few Good Great Philosophy Reward
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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