I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
– Diogenes the Cynic
I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.
– Diogenes the Cynic
Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
– Diogenes the Cynic
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
– Diogenes the Cynic
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
– Diogenes the Cynic
The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other.
– Diogenes the Cynic
[When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.
– Diogenes the Cynic
Wise kings generally have wise counselors and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
– Diogenes the Cynic
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 the Cynic
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 the Cynic
Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
– Diogenes the Cynic
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
– Diogenes the Cynic
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.