Plutarch Quotes About Prosperity

Quotes about: Prosperity

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

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Best Friend, Adversity

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

  Plutarch

  Adversity, Men, Prosperity

• Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

  Plutarch

  Wisdom, Justice, Politics

  Plutarch (2000). “The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume I: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.629, Modern Library

• Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt; but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous.

  Plutarch

  Soul, Looks, Noble

  "Plutarch's Lives in Eight Volumes".

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