Modesty is the color of virtue.

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves, whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.

A philosopher named Aristippus, who had quite willingly sucked up to Dionysus and won himself a spot at his court, saw Diogenes cooking lentils for a meal. "If you would only learn to compliment Dionysus, you wouldn't have to live on lentils."

Diogenes replied, "But if you would only learn to live on lentils, you wouldn't have to flatter Dionysus.