Examples of using "Diogenes" in a sentence and their english translations:
"Why are you begging for alms, Diogenes?" - "In order to teach generosity."
Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry.
"Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down."
Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato’s man." On which account this addition was made to the definition,—"With broad flat nails."