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I am looking for an honest man.

Diogenes

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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?
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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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There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
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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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Asked where he came from, he said, I am a citizen of the world.
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Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
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One day, observing a child drinking out of his hands, he cast away the cup from his wallet with the words, A child has beaten me in plainness of living.
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There is a false love that will make you something you are not.
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We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
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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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The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.
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No man is hurt but by himself. ...Literally by how he interprets what happens to him. If he focusses on how it could have been better, he will be hurt. If he focusses on how it could have been worse, he will be happy. The same is true for women too.
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By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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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 chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.
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