diogenes the cynic

Modesty is the color of virtue.

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

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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.

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

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Blushing is the color of virtue.

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To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.

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I am a citizen of the world.

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

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I am looking for an honest man.

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The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, 'The dream of a waking man.'

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If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

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Democritus says, 'But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.'

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The mob is the mother of tyrants.

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The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

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Chilo advised, 'not to speak evil of the dead.'

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Nothing can be produced out of nothing.

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He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

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Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions ... that laws were like cobwebs, for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.

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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

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When asked what was the proper time for supper If you are a rich man, whenever you please and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

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Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.

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When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, 'To know one's self.' And what was easy, 'To advise another.'

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

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He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

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All things are in common among friends.

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