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
By worrying as little as possible about fame.
self should criticize
To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
wise leader counselor
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
friendship common all-things
All things are in common among friends.
art slave masters
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
thinking
Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
gratitude grateful iron
Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing what they have with what the envious person has, rather than the envious person realising they have more than what they could have and certainly more than some others and being grateful. It is really just an inability to get a correct perspective on their lives.
children drinking hands
One day, observing a child drinking out of his hands, he cast away the cup from his wallet with the words, "A child has beaten me in plainness of living.
philosophy pretender ifs
Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.
wine people pay
To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay.
home people said
When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile , he said, "And I sentenced them to stay at home .
simple complicated
We have complicated every simple gift of the gods.
world should dies
We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone?
wine drunk cost
I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.