"Diogenes received an invitation to dine with one whose house was splendidly furnished, in the highest order and taste…"

"Diogenes the Cynic, it is related, was mighty of all people in regard to everything from self-control to endurance. H…"

"It would be better, I think, for the man who really seeks the truth not to ask what the poets say; rather, he should …"

"But it is best of all to look at the human skeleton with your own eyes."

"The fact is that those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will no…"

"That which is, grows, while that which is not, becomes."

"A god, as I have said, commanded me to tell the first use also, and he himself knows that I have shrunk from its obsc…"

"Diogenes compared them to fig-trees growing over precipices; for their fruit was devoured by daws and crows, not by men."

"Much music marreth men's manners."

"He who has two cakes of bread, let him dispose of one of them for some flowers of the narcissus; for bread is the foo…"