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“Alexander the Great found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained, "I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave.”
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“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.”
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“We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.”
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“I am a citizen of the world.”
― The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
― The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
“When people laughed at him because he walked backward beneath the portico, he said to them: "Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?”
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