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Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
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The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
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Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.
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To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay."
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I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.
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If your cloak was a gift, I appreciate it; if it was a loan, I'm not through with it yet.
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We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.
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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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Modesty is the color of virtue.
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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
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Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
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We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone?
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Let us not unlearn what we have already learned.
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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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All things are in common among friends.
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There is a false love that will make you something you are not.
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I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.
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I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.
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The great thieves lead away the little thief.
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If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
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I am looking for a human.
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Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.
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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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I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
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