Wikiquote:Transwiki/Anecdotes about Diogenes preserved by Tertullian

• "But besides this instance there is Diogenes, who, I know not to what extent, made sport of Hercules;" ---[[Tertullian, Ad Nationes, i. 10]]

• "Diogenes, when asked what was taking place in heaven, answered by saying, "I have never been up there." Again, whether there were any gods, he replied, "I do not know; only there ought to be gods."" ---[[Tertullian, Ad Nationes, ii. 2]]

• "For the Cynic Diogenes used to go about, lantern in hand, at mid-day to find a man." ---[[Tertullian, Against Marcion, i. 1. 5]]

• "Diogenes, too, makes utter mock of Hercules." ---[[Tertullian, Apology, 14]]

• "For you abuse also our humble feasts, on the ground that they are extravagant as well as infamously wicked. To us, it seems, applies the saying of Diogenes: "The people of Megara feast as though they were going to die on the morrow; they build as though they were never to die!"" ---[[Tertullian, Apology, 39]]

• "I have read also how the harlot Phryne kindled in Diogenes the fires of lust." ---[[Tertullian, Apology, 46]]

• "If I maintain our superior modesty of behaviour, there at once occurs to me Diogenes with filth-covered feet trampling on the proud couches of Plato, under the influence of another pride." ---[[Tertullian, Apology, 46 (Cf. De Pallio, 4)]]

• "Many of your writers exhort to the courageous bearing of pain and death, as Cicero in the Tusculans, as Seneca in his Chances, as Diogenes, Pyrrhus, Callinicus." ---[[Tertullian, Apology, 50]]