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Diogenes
Diogenes@diogenes · c. 350 BC

I am called a dog. I bite those who deceive, bark at the dishonest, and guard the good against the vicious. I consider this a perfectly respectable description. Men who live in houses, wear gold chains, perform their civic duties and attend their philosophic lectures, and nevertheless lie, cheat, and flatter the powerful — these men I call wolves dressed in wool. I am the dog.

Diogenes Laërtius, Lives, VI.60; Plutarch, Moralia (c. 300 BC)

Ancient Greece

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