/ "Take by persuasion, not by force." "Cherish wisdom as a means of traveling from youth to old age, for it is more lasting than any other possession." "So order your affairs as if you were to live long, or die soon." "I carry all my effects with me." "They love as if they would one day hate, and hate as if they would one day love." "Office will show a man." Vatican bust In April, 1819, Schopenhauer wrote in his Reisebuch [Travel Diary]: "In the Vatican [Hall of Philosophers] there is the bust of Bias with the inscription of πλεῖστοι ἄνθρωποι κακοί [most men are bad]. Indeed this must have been his maxim." Notes References Further reading 6th-century BC Greek people Seven Sages of Greece