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

Plutarch on Adversity
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"Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly."

Plutarch on Adversity
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"Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life."

Plutarch on Death and Dying
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"A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful? holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. Yet, added he, none of you can tell where it pinches me."

Plutarch on Divorce
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"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 on Failure
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"Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist."

Plutarch on Fate
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"Abstain from beans."

Plutarch on Food and Eating
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"It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors."

Plutarch on Ancestry
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"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself."

Plutarch on Happiness
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"To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days."

Plutarch on History and Historians
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"It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything."

Plutarch on Integrity
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"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune."

Plutarch on Achievement
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"They named it Ovation from the Latin ovis [A Sheep]."

Plutarch on Applause
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"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."

Plutarch on Mind
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"When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door."

Plutarch on Money
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"Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord."

Plutarch on Music
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"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little."

Plutarch on Perseverance
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"Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny."

Plutarch on Bargains
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"Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life."

Plutarch on Praise
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"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one in adversity."

Plutarch on Prosperity
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"The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose."

Plutarch on Purpose
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"We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away."

Plutarch on Respectability
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"Rest is the sweet sauce of labor."

Plutarch on Rest
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"To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them."

Plutarch on Risk
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"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech."

Plutarch on Silence
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