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If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?

Diogenes

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Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
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When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
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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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When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, In ruling people.
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Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.
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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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