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I am looking for an honest man.

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Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
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Asked where he came from, he said, I am a citizen of the world.
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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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The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
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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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Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
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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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There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
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The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.
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We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
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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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To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, Come, see that you obey orders.
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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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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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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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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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Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.
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