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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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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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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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He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, I am looking for a human.
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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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Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
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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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Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
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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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Wise kings generally have wise counselors and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
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There is a false love that will make you something you are not.
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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
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All things are in common among friends.
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Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, Behold Plato's man!
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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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There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
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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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