A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Quote by Plutarch

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Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and...

Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and...

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

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

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent...

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent...

When the candles are out all women are fair

When the candles are out all women are fair

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart

The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart

Socrates said, Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat...

Socrates said, Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat...

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

Themosticles said The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern...

Themosticles said The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern...

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Rest: the sweet sauce of labor

Rest: the sweet sauce of labor

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks...

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks...

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one...

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one...

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he...

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he...

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is...

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is...

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to...

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to...