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People who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments; the sound is all they have to offer.

Diogenes

To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
DIOGENES

Criticize Deep Educate Yourself
In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
DIOGENES

Face Home Man Place Rich Spit
If I gained one thing from philosophy is that at the very least, I am well prepared to confront any change in fortune.
DIOGENES

Change Confront Fortune Gain Least Myself Philosophy Prepare
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
DIOGENES

Feel Hurt 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.”
DIOGENES

Deep Himself Lunch Man Poor Proper Rich Time Yourself
I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
DIOGENES

Dog Himself Man Myself One Liner Perspective Piss Surprise
He has the most who is most content with the least.
DIOGENES

Content Deep Himself Least One Liner Philosophy
The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
DIOGENES

Effect Fret Gall Good Honest Man Yourself
Blushing is the color of virtue.
DIOGENES

Blush Color Virtue
We come into the world alone and we die alone.
DIOGENES

Alone Come Death World
Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
DIOGENES

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.
DIOGENES

Bones Father Human Philosophy Slave
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
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.
DIOGENES

Exile Himself Home People Perspective Stay
It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
DIOGENES

Different Head Mad Myself Perspective Yourself
We have two ears and one tongue so that we could listen more and talk less.
DIOGENES

Ear Listen Talk Tongue

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