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- It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
- Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing…
- Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.
- 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…
- I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.
- Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world
- Lovers derive their pleasures from their misfortunes.
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