Being asked what he would take to be soundly cuffed, he replied, "A helmet."
Seeing a youth dressing with elaborate care, he said, "If it's for men, you're a fool; if for women, a knave."
One day he detected a youth blushing. "Courage," said he, "that is the hue of virtue."
One day after listening to a couple of lawyers disputing, he condemned them both, saying that the one had no doubt stolen, but the other had not lost anything.
To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay."
When he was told that many people laughed at him, he made answer, "But I am not laughed down."
—Diogenes Laërtius, 6.54
IMAGE: Jacob Jordaens, Diogenes Searching for an Honest Man (c. 1642)
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