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9 Bion Quotes

Bion offers thoughtful musings on fate, friendship and shared ownership that feel plain-spoken and a bit grand.

Bion quotes

  1. Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.

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  2. Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.

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  3. Once when Bion was at sea in the company of some wicked men, he fell into the hands of pirates; and when the rest said, 'We are undone if we are known,'-'But I,' said he, 'am undone if we are not known.'

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  4. Of a rich man who was niggardly he said, 'That man does not own his estate, but his estate owns him.'

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  5. Bion insisted on the principle that 'The property of friends is common.'

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  6. Old age is the harbor of all ills.

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  7. Wealth is the sinews of affairs.

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  8. The road to Hades is the easiest to travel.

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  9. He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.

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