Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions.
The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut. - Bion Of Borysthenes
The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut.
- Bion Of Borysthenes
Wealth is the sinews of success. - Bion Of Borysthenes
Wealth is the sinews of success.
Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions. - Bion Of Borysthenes
It hurts the bald-head just as much as the thatched-head to have his hairs plucked. - Bion Of Borysthenes
It hurts the bald-head just as much as the thatched-head to have his hairs plucked.
Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils. - Bion Of Borysthenes
Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils.
The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest. - Bion Of Borysthenes
The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.
Self-conceit is the enemy of progress. - Bion Of Borysthenes
Self-conceit is the enemy of progress.
Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. - Bion Of Borysthenes
Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.
Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns. For she, says Bion, ju… - Bion Of Borysthenes
Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns. For she, says Bion, ju…
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