Zitat des Tages von Diogenes:
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
No man is hurt but by himself.
Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
Stand a little less between me and the sun.
I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
The great thieves lead away the little thief.
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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.
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.
Modesty is the color of virtue.
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.
He has the most who is most content with the least.
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.
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
Blushing is the color of virtue.
It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.
Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?