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He has the most who is most content with the least.
Diogenes
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When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.
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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings
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By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
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He was breakfasting in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of dog. It is you who are dogs, cried he, when you stand round and watch me at my breakfast.
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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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He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, A spy upon your insatiable greed.
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When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, In ruling people.
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If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?
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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
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Perdiccas threatened to put him to death unless he came to him, That's nothing wonderful, Diogenes said, for a beetle or a tarantula would do the same.
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