Diogenes Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

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.

In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.