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.

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

Wealth is the sinews of success.

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

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

The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut.

Self-conceit is the enemy of progress.