All Diogenes Quotes
- No man is hurt but by himself. ...Literally by how he interprets what happens to him. If he focusses on how it could have been… Been
- We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone? Alone
- On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame Asked
- There is a false love that will make you something you are not. Catchy
- You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself. Blame
- Nothing can be produced out of nothing. Funny
- To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others. All
- The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body. Body
- One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings Mindless
- Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead." Advised
- The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled. Association
- The great thieves lead away the little thief. Crime
- Calumny is only the noise of madmen. Calumny
- Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other. Asserted
- Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy. Inspirational
- Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling… Action
- Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside. Armour
- By worrying as little as possible about fame. Fame
- 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… Either Good
- Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly. Animal
- Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards. Dog
- I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. Athenian
- The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. Education
- A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies. Abide
- 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… Ask