Bury me on my face, said Diogenes the Cynic and when he was asked why, he replied, Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.
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When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, 'To know one's self.' And what was easy, 'To advise another.'Diogenes the Cynic
Chilo advised, 'not to speak evil of the dead.'
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He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.
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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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Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions ... that laws were like cobwebs, for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.
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All things are in common among friends.
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