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“Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.”
-- Bion of Borysthenes
#Sports #Philosophical #Animal
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“Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions.”
-- Bion of Borysthenes
#Passion #Men #Slave
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“It hurts the bald-head just as much as the thatched-head to have his hairs plucked.”
-- Bion of Borysthenes
#Hurt #Hair #It Hurts
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“Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils.”
-- Bion of Borysthenes
#Mother #Cities #Evil
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“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, just like a poet, sometimes assigns the leading role, sometimes that of the supporting role; sometimes that of a king, sometimes that of a beggar. Do not, therefore, being a supporting actor, desire the role of the lead.”
-- Bion of Borysthenes
#Kings #Men #Good Man
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“Wealth is the sinews of success.”
-- Bion of Borysthenes
#Wealth
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“The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut.”
-- Bion of Borysthenes
#Eye #Men #Passing Away
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“Self-conceit is the enemy of progress.”
-- Bion of Borysthenes
#Self #Enemy #Progress
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“Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common.”
-- Bion of Borysthenes
#Principles #Common #Property
