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
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
Plutarch
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
Plutarch
Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease; and music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
Plutarch
The first destroyer of the liberties of a people is he who first gave them bounties and largess
Plutarch
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits
Plutarch
The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.
Plutarch
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Plutarch