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- To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one is adversity.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered: but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battle.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
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