We have complicated every simple gift of the gods.
I am looking for an honest man.
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.
Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases.
Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.
He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."
Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay."
When Alexander the Great addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, Diogenes replied "Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine."
Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief."
I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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!"
Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing what they have with what the envious person has, rather than the envious person realising they have more than what they could have and certainly more than some others and being grateful. It is really just an inability to get a correct perspective on their lives.
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."
Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?
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."
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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