Diogenes Quotes
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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 sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.
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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
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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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You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
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Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."
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When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people."
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Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Behold Plato's man!"
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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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Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.
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Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.
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By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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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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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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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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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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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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Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.
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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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On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay."