Diogenes Quotes
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Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."
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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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It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
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Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.
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Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
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The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
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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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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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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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The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.
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Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
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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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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
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Modesty is the color of virtue.
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By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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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 great thieves lead away the little thief.
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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
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We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone?
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Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.
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Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.
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The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
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On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame.