123 Quotes by Diogenes

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.

People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments; the sound is all they have to offer.

Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

The noblest people are those despising wealth , learning , pleasure and life ; esteeming above them poverty , ignorance , hardship and death .

Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.

Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.

Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief.