Diogenes Quotes
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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.
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Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.
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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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I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
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Modesty is the color of virtue.
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The great thieves lead away the little thief.
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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
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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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Let us not unlearn what we have already learned.
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Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.
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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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There is a false love that will make you something you are not.
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The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.
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Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.
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People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments; the sound is all they have to offer.
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One day, observing a child drinking out of his hands, he cast away the cup from his wallet with the words, "A child has beaten me in plainness of living."
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When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, "And I sentenced them to stay at home."
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I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.
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I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?