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He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.
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Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common."
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He was once asked what a friend is, and his answer was, "One soul abiding in two bodies."
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The question was once put to him, how we ought to behave to our friends; and the answer he gave was, "As we should wish our friends to behave to us."
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He said that men ought to remember those friends who were absent as well as those who were present.
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When Zeno was asked what a friend was, he replied, "Another I."
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Diogenes Laërtius
Born:
180
Died:
240
(aged 60)
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