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You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.

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.
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Enemy Friend Good Man Preserve Task
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
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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Dog Few Good Great Philosophy Reward
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
No man is hurt but by himself.
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Deep Himself Hurt Man One Liner
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
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
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
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Belong Drink Myself Wine
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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Deep Discover Man Philosophy Wise
We come into the world alone and we die alone.
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Alone Come Death World
Blushing is the color of virtue.
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Blush Color Virtue
Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
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Poverty Teaching 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
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

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