Diogenes Quotes
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Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.
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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
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The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.
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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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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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Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.
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Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."
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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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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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When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people."
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Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.
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By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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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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Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
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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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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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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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The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.