Bias of Priene Quotes

• Be slow in considering, but resolute in action.

  Bias of Priene

  Action, Considering, Resolute

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• 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

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

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  Able, Bears, Misfortunes

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• Hear much; speak little.

  Bias of Priene

  Listening, Speech, Littles

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• 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.

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• The majority is wicked.

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  Wicked, Majority, Wickedness

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

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  Law, Crime, Law Breakers

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• 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

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• 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

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

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  Men, Enemy, Vices

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

  Bias of Priene

  Brother, Men, Mankind

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• 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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