People who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments; the sound is all they have to offer.
DIOGENESDogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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If I gained one thing from philosophy is that at the very least, I am well prepared to confront any change in fortune.
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Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.
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If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
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Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.
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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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We come into the world alone and we die alone.
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What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
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I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
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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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The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
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You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
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