Diogenes
Diogenes
Diogenes of Sinopewas a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy. Also known as Diogenes the Cynic, he was born in Sinope, an Ionian colony on the Black Sea, in 412 or 404 BC and died at Corinth in 323 BC...
worry littles fame
On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame
wine drunk cost
I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.
drinking wine drink
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
two soul body
A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.
teacher why-not pupils
Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
mad different
It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
dog bystanders watches
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.
philosophy self practice
Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy , for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning , poverty forces us to practice .
kings dine please
Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.
ought knows
I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
friendship common all-things
All things are in common among friends.
law speech cobwebs
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.
evil speak
Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."
philosophy pretender ifs
Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.