123 Quotes by Diogenes

The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.

When Alexander the Great addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, Diogenes replied "Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine .

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

Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.

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

He was breakfasting in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of " dog ." "It is you who are dogs," cried he, "when you stand round and watch me at my breakfast.

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

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.