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Bias of Priene

Bias

also: Biante

One of the traditional Seven Sages of Greece. Scipio (in Laelius) refused to believe that the cynical maxim “love as though you may one day hate” really came from so wise a man.

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Mentioned in 4 works (4 total)

Ad Familiares 5.12 letters · 1 mention
The Subdivisions of Oratory rhetoric · 1 mention
Stoic Paradoxes philosophy · 1 mention
Laelius, On Friendship philosophy · 1 mention

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