Diogenes -Quotes.

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. 

~ Diogenes

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. 

~ Diogenes

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

~ Diogenes

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend. 

~ Diogenes

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be. 

~ Diogenes

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals. 

~ Diogenes

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them. 

~ Diogenes

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly. 

~ Diogenes

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less. 

~ Diogenes

Blushing is the color of virtue. 

~ Diogenes

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies. 

~ Diogenes

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough. 

~ Diogenes

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust. 

~ Diogenes

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

~ Diogenes

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music. 

~ Diogenes

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

~ Diogenes

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

~ Diogenes

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little. 

~ Diogenes

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others. 

~ Diogenes

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. 

~ Diogenes

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance. 

~ Diogenes

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. 

~ Diogenes

The mob is the mother of tyrants. 

~ Diogenes  

 

Stand a little less between me and the sun. 

~ Diogenes

He has the most who is most content with the least. 

~ Diogenes

The great thieves lead away the little thief. 

~ Diogenes

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man. 

~ Diogenes

No man is hurt but by himself. 

~ Diogenes

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings? 

~ Diogenes