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Bias of Priene Quotes

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

Bias of Priene
Journey, Support, Age

Be slow in considering, but resolute in action.

Bias of Priene
Action, Considering, Resolute

Hear much; speak little.

Bias of Priene
Listening, Speech, Littles

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

Bias of Priene
Differences, Enemy, Friend Enemy
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations V2: Drawn From The Speech And Literature Of All Nations, Ancient And Modern (1922)". Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

The majority is wicked.

Bias of Priene
Wicked, Majority, Wickedness

The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.

Bias of Priene
Able, Bears, Misfortunes

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

Bias of Priene
Law, Crime, Law Breakers

Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.

Bias of Priene
Government, Law, Empires

He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.

Bias of Priene
Expectations, Stores, Wit

Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.

Bias of Priene
Men, Enemy, Vices

What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.

Bias of Priene
Brother, Men, Mankind

Speak of the Gods as they are.

Bias of Priene
Speak
"The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Charles Duke Yonge, c. 230.

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