Jeffrey Hendriks

“Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?”
― Diogenes of Sinope

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

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

“And at last, becoming a complete misanthrope, he used to live, spending his time in walking about the mountains; feeding on grasses and plants, and in consequence of these habits, he was attacked by the dropsy, and so then he returned to the city, and asked the physicians, in a riddle, whether they were able to produce a drought after wet weather. And as they did not understand him, he shut himself up in a stable for oxen, and covered himself with cow-dung, hoping to cause the wet to evaporate from him, by the warmth that this produced. And as he did himself no go good in this way, he died, having lived seventy years;”
― Diogenes, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers