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Speak of the Gods as they are.
Bias of Priene
Cherish wisdom as a means of travelling from youth to old age, for it is more lasting than any other possession.
Bias of Priene
Accept of things, having procured them by persuasion, not by force.
Bias of Priene
You should look into a mirror: if you look fine, do fine things; if you look ugly, correct by nobility the defect of your nature.
Bias of Priene
Great strength of body is the gift of nature; But to be able to advise whate'er Is most expedient for one's country's good, Is the peculiar work of sense and wisdom.
Bias of Priene
Choose the course which you adopt with deliberation; but when you have adopted it, then persevere in it with firmness.
Bias of Priene
Do not speak fast, for that shows folly.
Bias of Priene
Great riches come to many men by chance.
Bias of Priene
Do not praise an undeserving man because of his riches.
Bias of Priene
Most men are wicked.
Bias of Priene
Seek to please all the citizens, even though Your house may be in an ungracious city. For such a course will favour win from all: But haughty manners oft produce destruction.
Bias of Priene
The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.
Bias of Priene
Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.
Bias of Priene
Love prudence.
Bias of Priene
Beneath this stone lies Bias, who was born In the illustrious Prienian land, The glory of the whole Ionian race.
Bias of Priene
He used also to say that that man was unfortunate who could not support misfortune; and that it is a disease of the mind to desire what was impossible, and to have no regard for the misfortunes of others.
Bias of Priene
When he was asked by an impious man what piety was, he made no reply; and when his questioner demanded the reason of his silence, he said, "I am silent because you are putting questions about things with which you have no concern."
Bias of Priene
He used to say, too, that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time: and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one another; for that most men were wicked.
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