1.
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
2.
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
3.
The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.
Bias of Priene
4.
Be slow in considering, but resolute in action.
Bias of Priene
5.
Hear much; speak little.
Bias of Priene
6.
The majority is wicked.
Bias of Priene
7.
What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.
Bias of Priene
8.
Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.
Bias of Priene
9.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
Bias of Priene
10.
He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.
Bias of Priene
11.
Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.
Bias of Priene
12.
Speak of the Gods as they are.
Bias of Priene
