It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
PlutarchThe state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.
PlutarchCourage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
PlutarchHad I a careful and pleasant companion that should show me my angry face in a glass, I should not at all take it ill; to behold man's self so unnaturally disguised and dishonored will conduce not a little to the impeachment of anger.
PlutarchRome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth.
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