If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

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

No man is hurt but by himself.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

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

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