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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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Wise kings generally have wise counselors and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
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Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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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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It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
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I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
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There is a false love that will make you something you are not.
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The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, The dream of a waking man.
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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
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There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
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He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, To get practice in being refused.
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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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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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Asked where he came from, he said, I am a citizen of the world.
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.
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