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

Diogenes

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
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
I am a citizen of the world.
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Citizen Myself World
We come into the world alone and we die alone.
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Alone Come Death World
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.”
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Deep Himself Lunch Man Poor Proper Rich Time Yourself
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
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Belong Drink Myself Wine
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
The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
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Art Deep Master Perspective Philosophy Rule Slave
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
No man is hurt but by himself.
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Deep Himself Hurt Man One Liner
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
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
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
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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