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Blushing is the color of virtue.

Diogenes

The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
DIOGENES

Beautiful Freedom Speech World
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
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
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
I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
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Dog Himself Man Myself One Liner Perspective Piss Surprise
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
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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Mob Mother Tyrant
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
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
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
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Belong Drink Myself Wine
I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.
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Deep Give Myself Nothing Remove Sun Sunshine Yourself
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
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
We come into the world alone and we die alone.
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Alone Come Death World
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

Blushing is the color of virtue.

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