Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.
PlutarchNothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
PlutarchThe state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.
PlutarchNature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed; in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.
Plutarch