“The idea of duty in one’s calling prowls about in our lives like the ghost of dead religious beliefs.”

— Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (chapter 5)

“Asked where he came from, Diogenes said, ‘I am a citizen of the world.’”

— Diogenes Laërtius,Lives of Eminent Philosophers (VI. 63)

“The love of money he [Diogenes] declared to be the mother-city of all evils.​”

— Diogenes Laërtius,Lives of Eminent Philosophers (VI. 50)

“Once Diogenes saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, ‘The great thieves are leading away the little thief.’”

— Diogenes Laërtius,Lives of Eminent Philosophers (VI. 45)