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Diogenes

Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.
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Comfort Deep Education Old Ornament Poor Rich Sober Young
The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
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Beautiful Freedom Speech World
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
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
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Belong Drink Myself Wine
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
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 mob is the mother of tyrants.
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Mob Mother Tyrant
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
He has the most who is most content with the least.
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Content Deep Himself Least One Liner Philosophy
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
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Feel Hurt Philosophy
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
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
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
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
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
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

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