"Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in..." - Quote by Diogenes

“As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.”

“The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.”

“Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world."”

“Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.”

“The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience.”

“Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.”

“The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.”

“I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.”

“Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!”