Diogenes Best Quotes

#1. On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame

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

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#3. What slave work do you want me to do for you?" asked Diogenes when he had been bought.

"Be a teacher to my children," answered Xeniades with the insanity that matched the wisdom of Diogenes.

Tomichan Matheikal

#4. No man is hurt but by himself," said Diogenes.

Maxwell Maltz

#5. When he saw the child of some prostitute throw stones at a crowd, Diogenes shouted to him, "Take care that you don't hit your father!

Luis E. Navia

#6. When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: 'Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.' It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government.

Henry Hazlitt

#7. Alexander the Great found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained, I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave.

Diogenes Of Sinope

#8. From Hunayn ibn-Ishak (Diogenes,8), we learn about his view of women and education: when he saw a man teaching a girl how to read and write, he advised him not to make a bad thing even worse.

Luis E. Navia

#9. The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.

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#10. And then comes the realization. That although a house was taken from you, you can still build a home in a wine jar.

Camilo Garzon

#11. The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities of the great thinker.

Emmanuel Des Essarts

#12. Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.

Jonathan Swift

#13. Since then her life had been peaceful and happy. She had allowed herself to be worshipped by that strangely captivating lover of hers, whose passionately willful temperament, tempered by that persistent, sunny gaiety, she had up to now only half understood.

Emmuska Orczy

#14. Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, 'I have been a fool, burdened all these years by the weight of a bowl when a perfectly good vessel lay at the end of my wrist.

Christopher Moore

#15. Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".

Michel De Montaigne

#16. The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub; and there he had the presumption to command Alexander the haughtiest of all men.

Henry Home, Lord Kames