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The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.

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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
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There is a false love that will make you something you are not.
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Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.
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Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.
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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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The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
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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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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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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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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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I am looking for an honest man.
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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?
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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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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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The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, The dream of a waking man.
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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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The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.
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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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