67 result(s) for Diogenes Quotes.
"It takes a wise man to discover a wise man."
"Most people are so thoroughly mired in illusion that they can't distinguish the real from the unreal."
"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."
"As I look around at these people who are committed to political virtue, I wonder who among them has the heart of a decent human being."
"One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings."
"It is the same to me where I begin, for there I shall end."
"As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies."
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"The mob is the mother of tyrants."
"Poverty is a remedy for many ills."
"People have the most god-like faces when they are silent."
"The sun too shines on the excrement on the earth, but does that mean the excrement is bright?"
"The most beautiful temple in the world is the body of a living human being."
"I love nobody, and I don't care if anybody loves me."
"Other dogs bite only their enemies. I bite also my friends in order to save them."
"If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to opinion, you will never be rich."
"To be rich is not the end, but the journey to it."
"Hunger is the greatest wealth."
"Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself."
"The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master."
"I will follow you, my lord, to the end of the world."
"I am searching for an honest man."
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"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours."
"If I have lost my life, I have found my conscience."
"One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence."
"Man is the most intelligent of the animals—and the most silly."
"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."
"Poverty is a virtue that one can teach oneself."
"He has the most who is most content with the least."
"Honesty is the best policy."
"How many things there are which I do not want."
"We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less."
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist."
"A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies."
"There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom."
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"There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool."
"Even a god can do nothing against necessity."
"Poverty is a virtue which one can teach or even impose, but avarice and wealth one must leave to self-discovery."
"The most beautiful of all things is freedom, and freedom is impossible without courage."
"As a musician, I play freely by the score of nature."
"Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own."
"The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted."
"It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man."
"The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust."
"If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."
"Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."
"Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning."
"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth."
"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."
"I am looking for an honest man."
"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
"The great thieves lead away the little thief."
"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."
"People have the most useless things in common."
"Deface the coin and by this act you deface the image of Caesar."
"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others."
"I am a citizen of the world."
"Blushing is the color of virtue."
"The sunken vessel often brings up a pearl from its sands."
"I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough."
"Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad."
"It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little."
"The art of being a slave is to rule one's master."
"Modesty is the color of virtue."
"What I like to see most is the favorable aspect of affairs."
"In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face."
"Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards."
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