Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.
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When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.
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If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
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'Bury me on my face,' said Diogenes and when he was asked why, he replied, 'Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.'
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As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
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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.
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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.
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[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.
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Chilo advised, not to speak evil of the dead.
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Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves, whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
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The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, The dream of a waking man.
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If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
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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.
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The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other
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All things are in common among friends.
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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
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When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, 'To know one's self.' And what was easy, 'To advise another.'
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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.
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The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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Time is the image of eternity.
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We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.
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Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed.
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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
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The only good is knowledge, the only evil is ignorance.
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He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
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Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
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