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

Diogenes

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

Criticize Deep Educate Yourself
Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.
DIOGENES

Comfort Deep Education Old Ornament Poor Rich Sober Young
I pissed on the man who called me a dog. why was he so surprised?
DIOGENES

Dog Himself Man Myself One Liner Perspective Piss Surprise
Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
DIOGENES

Poverty Teaching Virtue
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
DIOGENES

Belong Drink Myself Wine
You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
DIOGENES

Blame Philosophy Teacher Yourself
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.”
DIOGENES

Deep Himself Lunch Man Poor Proper Rich Time Yourself
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
DIOGENES

Mob Mother Tyrant
In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
DIOGENES

Face Home Man Place Rich Spit
I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
DIOGENES

Bark Bite Dog Greedy Kind Myself
We have two ears and one tongue so that we could listen more and talk less.
DIOGENES

Ear Listen Talk Tongue
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
DIOGENES

Education Foundation State Youth
Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.
DIOGENES

Help Philosophy Poverty Practice Reason Teaching
Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.
DIOGENES

Bite Dog Enemy Friend Perspective
It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
DIOGENES

Different Head Mad Myself Perspective Yourself
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

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

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