Diogenes Quotes.
You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
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.
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
Blushing is the color of virtue.
Fools! You think of “god” as a sentient being. God is the word used to represent a force. This force created nothing, it just helps things along. It does not answer prayers, although it may make you think of a way to solve a problem. It has the power to influence you, but not decide for you.
Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.
Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.
The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.
The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
Stand a little less between me and the sun.
In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
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.
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.
