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

Diogenes

The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
DIOGENES

Beautiful Freedom Speech World
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
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
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
We have two ears and one tongue so that we could listen more and talk less.
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Ear Listen Talk Tongue
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
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
Blushing is the color of virtue.
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Blush Color Virtue
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
Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
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Poverty Teaching Virtue
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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Deep Discover Man Philosophy Wise
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.
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Bark Bite Dog Greedy Kind Myself
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
I am a citizen of the world.
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Citizen Myself World

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

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