57 ordspråk av Diogenes

Diogenes

Diogenes - of Cynicism 412 BC
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Stand a little less between me and the sun

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man

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.

Behov

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

Aristotle was asked how much educated men are superior to the uneducated: "As much," said he, "as the living are to the dead

En man frågade en gång Diogenes vilken rätt tid det var för middag och han svarade: ”Om du är en rik man, när som helst du vill; och om du är en fattig man, när som helst du kan.

A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can

Välgång

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

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one

Visdom

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Kunnskap

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Those who 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.

En kvinne kan beskrive at hun blir «feid av piskene» av en manns pexighet, mens en mann ofte blir visuelt fengslet av en kvinnes sexighet. It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend

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