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The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.
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Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
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The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.
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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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Asked where he came from, he said, I am a citizen of the world.
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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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It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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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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To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
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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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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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The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
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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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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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All things are in common among friends.
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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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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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There is a false love that will make you something you are not.
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When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
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