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" A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies. "
Bodies
Soul
Friend
" 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. "
Man
Friends
Good
" Blushing is the color of virtue. "
Color
Blushing
Virtue
" Calumny is only the noise of madmen. "
Madmen
Only
Noise
" Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards. "
Good
Greatest
Dogs
" He has the most who is most content with the least. "
Least
Most
Who
" I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals. "
Me
Anything
Because
" I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. "
Freedom
Citizen
Am
" I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be. "
Gods
Know
Whether
" 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. "
Side
Me
You
" I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance. "
Fact
Except
Ignorance
" In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. "
House
Spit
Rich
" I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough. "
Away
Drinking
Cup
" It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little. "
Want
Privilege
Nothing
" It takes a wise man to discover a wise man. "
Wise
Wise Man
Discover
" It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend. "
Favorite
Most
Time
" Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly. "
Animals
Man
Most
" Modesty is the color of virtue. "
Virtue
Modesty
Color
" Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad. "
Men
Most
Finger
" No man is hurt but by himself. "
Himself
Man
Hurt
" Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings? "
Anybody
Who
Use
" Stand a little less between me and the sun. "
Stand
Sun
Little
" The art of being a slave is to rule one's master. "
Being
Slave
Rule
" The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. "
Education
State
Youth
" The great thieves lead away the little thief. "
Away
Great
Lead
" The mob is the mother of tyrants. "
Mother
Tyrants
Mob
" There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool. "
Man
Wise Man
Wise
" The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them. "
Polluted
Them
Too
" The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted. "
Sun
Shines
Nature
" The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust. "
Pleasure
First
Vine
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