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All things are in common among friends.

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We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
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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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It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
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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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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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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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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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The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
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There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
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On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame
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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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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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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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He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, I am looking for a human.
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.
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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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