In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.


Diogenes

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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Pride will spit in pride's face.
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A poor man but with a rich idea,is nothing but a rich man.
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YOUSUF KARSH
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GEORGE ORWELL
One my house there?s no damage. No damage to my house, inside.
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Spit in my face you Jews, and pierce my side.
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Don't get married in a house where there is no toilet.
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A man's home is his wife's castle.
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A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
RICHARD WHATELY
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I'm a rich man, but I don't want to be a miser.
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MITCH LEIGH
If the money's right, I'm happy to bust up the other side of his face... No problem.
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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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He has the most who is most content with the least.
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
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The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
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I still have my lantern.
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I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.
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The mob is the mother of tyrants
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The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them
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Stand a little less between me and the sun
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Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
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I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance
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The great thieves lead away the little thief
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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man
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A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies
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The great thieves lead away the little thief.
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To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts.
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Take the goods the gods provide thee.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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If gaming does an aged sire entice, Then my young master swiftly learns the vice.
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Great wit to madness sure is near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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The truly noble mind has no resentments.
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Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.
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The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other
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He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin.
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Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend.
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As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the ...
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We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.
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We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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Modesty is the color of virtue.
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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
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It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
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The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
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It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
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Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
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There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
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No man is hurt but by himself
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The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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