Diogenes Quotes
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Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
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Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
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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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He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."
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Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.
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It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
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Perdiccas threatened to put him to death unless he came to him, "That's nothing wonderful," Diogenes said, "for a beetle or a tarantula would do the same."
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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
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The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.
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The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
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He was breakfasting in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of "dog." "It is you who are dogs," cried he, "when you stand round and watch me at my breakfast."
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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
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By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.
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You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
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The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.
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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
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When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments.
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To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay."
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Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."
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The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
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He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed."
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Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.