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Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. — Bion of Borysthenes · 100Old age is the harbor of all ills. — Bion of Borysthenes · 240He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. — Bion of Borysthenes