Quote #8
The road to Hades is the easiest to travel.
More from Bion
- Wealth is the sinews of affairs.
- He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.
- Old age is the harbor of all ills.
- Bion insisted on the principle that 'The property of friends is common.'
- Of a rich man who was niggardly he said, 'That man does not own his estate, but his estate owns him.'
- 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 w…
- Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.
- Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.