black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Plutarch

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

Happiness Talk Yourself
May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man?
PLUTARCH

Impossible Man Myself
Neither blame nor praise yourself.
PLUTARCH

Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
PLUTARCH

Friendship Grief Prosperity
Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
PLUTARCH

Fear Memories Myself Pain
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
PLUTARCH

Difficult Easy
But a man cannot by writing a bill of divorce to his vice get rid of all trouble at once, and enjoy tranquillity by living apart.
PLUTARCH

Enjoyment Man Trouble Vice Writing
Come and take them.
PLUTARCH

Minimalism One Liner
In a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.
PLUTARCH

Fantasy Season Talk Time Winter Word
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
PLUTARCH

Character Goodness Greatness 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
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
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
PLUTARCH

Anger Man Power Savage
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
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
PLUTARCH

Philosophy Soul Spiritual
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
PLUTARCH

Deep Friendship Struggle

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Plutarch Quotes