Quotes from Bias of Priene

What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.

Truth breeds hatred.

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.

What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.

Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.