On Being Asked By Someone How He

Plato Had Defined Man As An Animal, Biped And Featherless, And Was Applauded. Diogenes Plucked A Fowl And Brought It Into The Lecture-room With The Words, "behold Plato's Man!"

There Is A False Love That Will Make You Something You Are Not.

He Once Begged Alms Of A Statue, And, When Asked Why He Did So, Replied, "to Get Practice In Being Refused."

Young Men Not Ought To Marry Yet, And Old Men Never Ought To Marry At All.

Perdiccas Threatened To Put Him To Death Unless He Came To Him, "that's Nothing Wonderful," Diogenes Said, "for A Beetle Or A Tarantula Would Do The Same."