Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings? -Diogenes

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Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.

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As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. -Diogenes

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The mob is the mother of tyrants. -Diogenes

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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. -Diogenes

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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

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Stand a little less between me and the sun. -Diogenes

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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. -Diogenes

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The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted. -Diogenes

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