A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.
Diogenes

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

Blushing is the color of virtue.
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

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

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

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
Diogenes

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

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.
Diogenes


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

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

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
Diogenes

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
Diogenes

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

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

Stand a little less between me and the sun.
Diogenes

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

The great thieves lead away the little thief.
Diogenes

The mob is the mother of tyrants.
Diogenes