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There is a false love that will make you something you are not.

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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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People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments the sound is all they have to offer.
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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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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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The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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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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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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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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By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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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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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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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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Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.
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