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

Quote by Plutarch

Topics: Happiness Quotes

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

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

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

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...

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...

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...

The wildest colts make the best horses.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

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

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

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them,...

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them,...

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that...

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that...

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

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

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

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

Character is long-standing habit.

Character is long-standing habit.

Character is long-standing habit.

Character is long-standing habit.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all...

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all...

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...

Character is simply habit long continued.

Character is simply habit long continued.