Frasi di Biante
Biante
Data di nascita: 600 a.C.
Data di morte: 530 a.C.
Biante è stato un filosofo greco antico, uno dei Sette Sapienti.
Autori simili
Anassimene1
filosofo greco antico
Aezio4
filosofo e dossografo greco antico
Anassimandro3
filosofo greco antico
Talete35
filosofo greco anticoFrasi Biante
„La maggioranza degli uomini è cattiva.“
— Biante
Source: Frase scritta da Biante sul tempio di Apollo a Delfi, secondo Diogene Laerzio in Vite dei filosofi I, 87. Citato in Luciano De Crescenzo, Storia della filosofia greca. I Presocratici, Mondadori, 2005, p. 20.
„Odia il parlare svelto.“
— Biante
Source: Citato in Luciano De Crescenzo, Storia della filosofia greca. I Presocratici, Mondadori, 2005, p. 18.
„Porto con me ogni mia ricchezza.“
— Biante
Attribuite, Omnia mea mecum porto.
Gli scrittori classici la attribuiscono a Biante, ma anche a Simonide e a Stilpone (Giuseppe Fumagalli, L'ape latina, Hoepli, 1987).
„Seek to please all the citizens, even though
Your house may be in an ungracious city.
For such a course will favour win from all:
But haughty manners oft produce destruction.“
— Bias of Priene
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 230)
„Speak of the Gods as they are.“
— Bias of Priene
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 230)
„Do not speak fast, for that shows folly.“
— Bias of Priene
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 230)
„Great strength of body is the gift of nature;
But to be able to advise whate'er
Is most expedient for one's country's good,
Is the peculiar work of sense and wisdom.“
— Bias of Priene
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 230)
„Great riches come to many men by chance.“
— Bias of Priene
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 230)
„Do not praise an undeserving man because of his riches.“
— Bias of Priene
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 230)
„Whatever good fortune befalls you, attribute it to the gods.“
— Bias of Priene
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 230)
„Most men are wicked.“
— Bias of Priene
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 230)
„You should look into a mirror: if you look fine, do fine things; if you look ugly, correct by nobility the defect of your nature.“
— Bias of Priene
as reported by Demetrius of Phalerum in Apophthegms of the Seven Sages, Loeb Classical Library, volume 525 Early Greek Philosophy, p. 137
„Cherish wisdom as a means of travelling from youth to old age, for it is more lasting than any other possession.“
— Bias of Priene
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 230)
„Choose the course which you adopt with deliberation; but when you have adopted it, then persevere in it with firmness.“
— Bias of Priene
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 230)
