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