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I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Plutarch

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
PLUTARCH

Happiness Talk Yourself
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
PLUTARCH

Philosophy Togetherness
It’s a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration, it is a very easy matter, but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.
PLUTARCH

Difficult Easy Greatness Man Place Produce
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
PLUTARCH

Difficult Easy
They insist upon the shaving of the mustache, I think, in order that they may accustom the young men to obedience in the most trifling matters.
PLUTARCH

Myself Thinking Young
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
PLUTARCH

Animal Live Philosophy Right
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
PLUTARCH

Friendship Grief Prosperity
Even those virtues that nature had denied him were imitated by him so successfully that he won more confidence than those who actually possessed them.
PLUTARCH

Confidence Nature Success Virtue
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
PLUTARCH

Man Philosophy World
May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man?
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Impossible Man Myself
Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
PLUTARCH

Fear Memories Myself Pain
It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
PLUTARCH

Art Creation Deserve
The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
PLUTARCH

Atheist Believe Fear God Man
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
PLUTARCH

Change Deep Friendship Myself
Painting is silent poetry.
PLUTARCH

One Liner Poetry Silence
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
PLUTARCH

Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh

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