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

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
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
Blushing is the color of virtue.
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Blush Color Virtue
No man is hurt but by himself.
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Deep Himself Hurt Man One Liner
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
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
He has the most who is most content with the least.
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Content Deep Himself Least One Liner Philosophy
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
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
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
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
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
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
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Feel Hurt Philosophy
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
The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
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Beautiful Freedom Speech World

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

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