Diogenes

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

— Diogenes

If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?

— Diogenes

Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world."

— Diogenes

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down."

— Diogenes

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

— Diogenes

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

— Diogenes

We have complicated every simple gift of the gods.

— Diogenes

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

— Diogenes

He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed."

— Diogenes

The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.

— Diogenes

To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay."

— Diogenes

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

— Diogenes

To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.

— Diogenes

Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.

— Diogenes

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

— Diogenes

Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

— Diogenes

Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.

— Diogenes

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

— Diogenes

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

— Diogenes

Let us not unlearn what we have already learned

— Diogenes

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

— Diogenes

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

— Diogenes

I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.

— Diogenes

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

— Diogenes

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

— Diogenes

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

— Diogenes

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

— Diogenes

Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.

— Diogenes

Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."

— Diogenes

I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.

— Diogenes

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

— Diogenes

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

— Diogenes

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

— Diogenes

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

— Diogenes

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

— Diogenes

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

— Diogenes

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

— Diogenes

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

— Diogenes

Lovers derive their pleasures from their misfortunes.

— Diogenes

When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people."

— Diogenes