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Blushing is the color of virtue.

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The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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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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People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments the sound is all they have to offer.
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Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.
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Fools! You think of god as a sentient being. God is the word used to represent a force. This force created nothing, it just helps things along. It does not answer prayers, although it may make you think of a way to solve a problem. It has the power to influence you, but not decide for you.
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By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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I am looking for an honest man.
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The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.
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Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.
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It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
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Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.
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When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments.
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Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
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He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, To get practice in being refused.
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When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves.
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?
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