To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.ģ1. Poverty is a virtue which one can teach yourself.ģ0. Those that 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.Ģ9. The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure, and life esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship, and death.Ģ8. You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.Ģ6. He has the most who is most content with the least.Ģ5. In a rich man’s house, there is no place to spit but his face.Ģ4.
To one who asked what was the proper time for lunch, he said, ‘If a rich man, when you will if a poor man, where you can.Ģ3. Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?Ģ2. We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.Ģ1. Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.Ģ0. People who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments the sound is all they have to offer.ġ9. Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.ġ8.
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.ġ7. Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.ġ6. Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.ġ4. The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.ġ3. The great thieves lead away the little thief.ġ2. The truly noble mind has no resentments.ġ1. When two friends part they should lock up each other’s secrets and exchange keys.
To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.ġ0. Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.ĩ. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.Ĩ. If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.ħ. 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.Ħ. Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.ĥ. Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.Ĥ. Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?ģ. Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.Ģ. This is where we get such thought-provoking and inspiring quotations from. Unfortunately, we have no writings of Diogenes to learn from but other sources share an insight into his life, his stories and events around the time he was alive. It was Zeno who transformed these ideas into the Stoicism school of philosophy, perhaps one of the most well known and enduring schools of philosophy to date. It was here that he taught his ideas to Crates, who in turn passed the philosophy of cynicism down to Zeno. He lived in relative poverty, often begging for a living, whilst being a vocal critic of the social values he saw around him, including criticising some important people in history such as Plato and Alexander the Great.Įventually, Diogenes was captured by pirates and his fate was to be sold into slavery, following which he ended up in Corinth. Diogenes was an Ancient Greek philosopher born around 404-412 BC and is known as one of the founders of Cynicism, a form of philosophy that believes the purpose of life should be to live in virtue, in agreement with nature.Īfter being exiled from his family home in Sinope, he went to Athens and didn’t approve of the city he found, instead deciding to model himself on Heracles, believing that action is a better way to live in virtue than simply the theory of it.
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