“No man is hurt but by himself.”

You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.

We come into the world alone and we die alone.

Behold! I’ve brought you a man.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.

I am a citizen of the world.

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

To one who asked what was the proper time for lunch, he said, “If a rich man, when you will; if a poor man, when you can.”

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

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 Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.

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

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.

Best not to know what’s waiting around the corner.

And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.

It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion.