The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

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.

The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.

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.

I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.