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Diogenes

"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but 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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"The world is but a perpetual see-saw."

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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

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"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."

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"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."

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"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."

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"The world remains ever the same."

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"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."

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"The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle."

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"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."

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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

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"We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less."
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"The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust."
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"The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted."
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"Blushing is the color of virtue."
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"The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them."
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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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"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others."
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"I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be."
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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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"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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