Quotes by : Diogenes

Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly he said "That man does hot possess his estate but his estate....

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look....

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct....

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing....

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits....

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.