"Calumny is only the noise of madmen...." - Quote by Diogenes

“Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.”

“Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.”

“Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief."”

“That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;The ornament of beauty is suspect,A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.”

“No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.”

“To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation.”

“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”

“I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow brain, could not bear much; he fancies that he has become a real man, and that I am his shadow.”

“We are in the final stages of egoic madness. Almost the whole world is fighting each other.”