It is difficult to bear a change of fortune for the worse with magnanimity.
—Bias of Priene
Whatever good fortune befalls you, attribute it to the gods.
—Bias of Priene
Love your friends as if they would some day hate you.
—Bias of Priene
Topics: Friendship
Do not praise an undeserving man because of his riches.
—Bias of Priene
So order your affairs as if you were to live long, or die soon.
—Bias of Priene
Love prudence.
—Bias of Priene
We should live as though our life would be both long and short.
—Bias of Priene
Great riches come to many men by chance.
—Bias of Priene
The naive men are easily fooled.
—Bias of Priene
The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.
—Bias of Priene
Topics: Misfortune
Choose the course which you adopt with deliberation; but when you have adopted it, then persevere in it with firmness.
—Bias of Priene
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
Topics: Wisdom
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
Do not speak fast, for that shows folly.
—Bias of Priene
Hear much; speak little.
—Bias of Priene
I carry all my effects with me.
—Bias of Priene
All men are wicked.
—Bias of Priene
We should live as though our life would be both long and short.
—Bias of Priene
Most people are evil.
—Bias of Priene
Truth breeds hatred.
—Bias of Priene
Topics: Truth
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