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."

— Diogenes Laërtius The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (200)

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