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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
Diogenes
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
Diogenes
Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
Diogenes
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
Diogenes
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.
Diogenes
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.
Diogenes
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Diogenes
Wise kings generally have wise counselors and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Diogenes
We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.
Diogenes
Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
Diogenes
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil ignorance.
Diogenes
Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does hot possess his estate, but his estate possesses him."
Diogenes
Thales was asked what was most difficult to man; he answered: "To know one's self."
Diogenes
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