Jeffrey Hendriks

“When people laughed at him because he walked backward beneath the portico, he said to them: "Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?”
― Diogenes

“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.”
― Diogenes

“It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.”
― Diogenes of Sinope

“Alexander the Great found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained, "I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave.”
― Diogenes