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Bias of Priene
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“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 (600–530 BC) said by 530 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Great riches come to many men by chance.”
Bias of Priene (600–530 BC) said by 530 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Choose the course which you adopt with deliberation; but when you have adopted it, then persevere in it with firmness.”
Bias of Priene (600–530 BC) said by 530 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do not speak fast, for that shows folly.”
Bias of Priene (600–530 BC) said by 530 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Speak of the Gods as they are.”
Bias of Priene (600–530 BC) said by 530 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do not praise an undeserving man because of his riches.”
Bias of Priene (600–530 BC) said by 530 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Accept of things, having procured them by persuasion, not by force.”
Bias of Priene (600–530 BC) said by 530 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whatever good fortune befalls you, attribute it to the gods.”
Bias of Priene (600–530 BC) said by 530 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cherish wisdom as a means of travelling from youth to old age, for it is more lasting than any other possession.”
Bias of Priene (600–530 BC) said by 530 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (600–530 BC) said by 530 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (600–530 BC) said by 530 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Most men are wicked.”
Bias of Priene (600–530 BC) said by 530 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source