Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta." - Diogenes of Sinope

The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

Diogenes the cynic, seeing one of the so-called freedmen pluming himself, while many heartily congratulated him, marveled at the absence of reason and discernment. “A man might as well,” he said, “proclaim that one of his servants became a grammarian, a geometrician, or musician, when he has no idea whatever of the art.” For as the proclamation cannot make them men of knowledge, so neither can it make them free.