Quotations by:
Bias of Priene
Choose the course which you adopt with deliberation; but when you have adopted it, then persevere in it with firmness.
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.
Most men are wicked.
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.