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We have two ears and one tongue so that we could listen more and talk less.

Diogenes

Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.
DIOGENES

Bite Dog Enemy Friend Perspective
Blushing is the color of virtue.
DIOGENES

Blush Color Virtue
One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
DIOGENES

Mind Original Quote Thought Worth
If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
DIOGENES

Banish Belly Easy Hunger Masturbate Rub
To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
DIOGENES

Criticize Deep Educate Yourself
No man is hurt but by himself.
DIOGENES

Deep Himself Hurt Man One Liner
People who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments; the sound is all they have to offer.
DIOGENES

Deep Instrument Music People Sound Talk
We come into the world alone and we die alone.
DIOGENES

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.
DIOGENES

Enemy Friend Good Man Preserve Task
He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about-I am looking for a human.
DIOGENES

Day Himself Human Lamp One Liner Philosophy
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.
DIOGENES

Deep Give Myself Nothing Remove Sun Sunshine Yourself
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.
DIOGENES

Exile Himself Home People Perspective Stay
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
DIOGENES

Belong Drink Myself Wine
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
DIOGENES

Dog Few Good Great Philosophy Reward
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
DIOGENES

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.
DIOGENES

Bones Father Human Philosophy Slave

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