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He has the most who is most content with the least.

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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Deep Discover Man Philosophy Wise
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
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
The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
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Beautiful Freedom Speech World
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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Education Foundation State Youth
He has the most who is most content with the least.
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Content Deep Himself Least One Liner Philosophy
One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
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Mind Original Quote Thought Worth
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

He has the most who is most content with the least.

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