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.

Diogenes
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  1. Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

  2. The only good is knowledge and the only evil ignorance.

  3. Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly he said "That man does hot possess his estate but his estate possesses him."

  4. Thales was asked what was most difficult to man he answered: "To know one's self."

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