There is a false love that will make you something you are not.

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.

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.

Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.

The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.

People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments; the sound is all they have to offer.