Bias

With this he left them and went onward to Nestor, the facile speaker of the Pylians, who was marshaling his men and urging them on, in company with Pelagon, Alastor, Chromios, Haimon, and Bias shepherd of his people.

The chosen men of the Athenians were in the van, led by Menestheus son of Peteos, with whom were also Pheidas, Stichios, and stalwart Bias:

After this he sprang on Laogonos and Dardanos, sons of Bias, and threw them from their chariot, the one with a blow from a thrown spear, while the other he cut down in hand-to-hand fight.

” Croesus, thinking that he spoke the truth, said:

“O King, the islanders are buying ten thousand horse, intending to march to

And what else do you suppose the islanders wished, as soon as they heard that you were building ships to attack them, than to catch Lydians on the seas, so as to be revenged on you for the Greeks who dwell on the mainland, whom you enslaved?

This is why we approve the saying of Bias, Office will show a man;

Bias, then, to his son setting out for Egypt and asking what he might do that would most gratify him, said:

I shall never say that a man has lost his goods if he has lost his cattle or his furniture, and I shall often praise that wise man — Bias, I think, who is counted among the Seven.

Thales of Miletus, Bias of Priene, Pittacus of Mitylene, and Cleobulus of Lindos;

Then next, the "All men are bad," or "Most men are bad" (for the same saying is uttered in two ways), the followers of Sotades of Byzantium say is Bias';

We will take up arms against him, then, said I, you and I together, if anyone affirms that either Simonides or Bias or Pittacus or any other of the wise and blessed said such a thing.