Diogenes

By worrying as little as possible about fame.

— Diogenes

Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.

— Diogenes

Being asked whether it's better to marry or not, he (Socrates) replied, Whichever you do you will repent it

— Diogenes

I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?

— Diogenes

He was breakfasting in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of "dog." "It is you who are dogs,"…

— Diogenes

Lovers derive their pleasures from their misfortunes.

— Diogenes

Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.

— Diogenes

We have complicated every simple gift of the gods.

— Diogenes

You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.

— Diogenes

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

— Diogenes

Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.

— Diogenes

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

— Diogenes

To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders."

— Diogenes

No man is hurt but by himself.

— Diogenes

Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.

— Diogenes

He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human."

— Diogenes

Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.

— Diogenes

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

— Diogenes

The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.

— Diogenes

When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves."

— Diogenes

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

— Diogenes

“Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend.”

— Diogenes

Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.

— Diogenes

When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments.

— Diogenes

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine,…

— Diogenes