The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. Epictetus
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
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt. plutarch
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. plutarch
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
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity. plutarch
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. plutarch
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. plutarch
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. plutarch
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large. plutarch
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. plutarch