Diogenes Quotes
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Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
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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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The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
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Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.
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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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When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people."
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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
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If your cloak was a gift, I appreciate it; if it was a loan, I'm not through with it yet.
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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 sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.
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Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.
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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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You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
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Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.
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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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By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
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Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."
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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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To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders."
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On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.