Diogenes Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Diogenes Quotes and Sayings


  • 1
    A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies. Diogenes | Refcard PDF
  • 2
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 3
    Blushing is the color of virtue. Diogenes | Refcard PDF
  • 4
    Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards. Diogenes | Refcard PDF
  • 5
    He has the most who is most content with the least. Diogenes | Refcard PDF
  • 6
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 7
    I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. Diogenes | Refcard PDF
  • 8
    I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be. Diogenes | Refcard PDF
  • 9
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 10
    I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance. Diogenes | Refcard PDF
  • 11
    I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough. Diogenes | Refcard PDF
  • 12
    It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little. Diogenes | Refcard PDF
  • 13
    It takes a wise man to discover a wise man. Diogenes | Refcard PDF
  • 14
    It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend. Diogenes | Refcard PDF
  • 15
    Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly. Diogenes | Refcard PDF
  • 16
    Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad. Diogenes | Refcard PDF
  • 17
    Stand a little less between me and the sun. Diogenes | Refcard PDF
  • 18
    The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. Diogenes | Refcard PDF
  • 19
    The great thieves lead away the little thief. Diogenes | Refcard PDF
  • 20
    The mob is the mother of tyrants. Diogenes | Refcard PDF
  • 21
    The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them. Diogenes | Refcard PDF
  • 22
    The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted. Diogenes | Refcard PDF
  • 23
    The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust. Diogenes | Refcard PDF
  • 24
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 25
    We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less. Diogenes | Refcard PDF
  • 26
    What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others. Diogenes | Refcard PDF
  • 27
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 28
    Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. Diogenes | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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