Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
PLUTARCHThe future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.
More Plutarch Quotes
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Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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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.
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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
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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.
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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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