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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

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Boys throw stones at frogs in fun, but the frogs do not die in fun, but in earnest.

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

Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions.

Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils.

It hurts the bald-head just as much as the thatched-head to have his hairs plucked.

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