Diogenes

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

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

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

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.

We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.