Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns. For she, says Bion, just like a poet, sometimes assigns the leading role, sometimes that of the supporting role; sometimes that of a king, sometimes that of a beggar. Do not, therefore, being a supporting actor, desire the role of the lead.

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

Wealth is the sinews of success.

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

Self-conceit is the enemy of progress.

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

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