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Behold! I’ve brought you a man.

Diogenes

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.
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Deep Instrument Music People Sound Talk
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
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
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
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
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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Education Foundation State Youth
One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
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Mind Original Quote Thought Worth
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
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
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Feel Hurt Philosophy
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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Mob Mother Tyrant
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
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
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 art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
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Art Deep Master Perspective Philosophy Rule Slave

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